A veteran Los Angeles City Hall official is one of the latest victims of an epidemic of the infectious disease typhus that continues to worsen across LA County. For months, LA County public health ...

A veteran Los Angeles City Hall official is one of the latest victims of an epidemic of the infectious disease typhus that continues to worsen across LA County. For months, LA County public health ...

Flea-borne typhus has reached “epidemic levels” in Pasadena, California, and an outbreak has been reported in downtown Los Angeles. To date, there have been 57 cases across Los Angeles County ...

In 1941, a typhus epidemic swept through the Warsaw Ghetto, where people were already trapped, crowded, and starving – and living under constant fear of worse reprisals from the Nazi occupiers.

Epidemic typhus can also be spread via inhalation. Scrub Typhus (Bush Typhus) Bush typhus is found in rural areas of northern Australia, Southeast Asia, India, Indonesia, Japan, and China.

More than 70 years ago, an imprisoned community in Nazi-occupied Poland banded together to contain a deadly epidemic of typhus, largely without the aid of vaccines or effective medicines.

A disease known as epidemic typhus was spreading among the close to half a million Jews confined in 1.3 square miles of Warsaw, Poland, in what became known as the Warsaw ghetto.

But deputy LA City Attorney Liz Greenwood, a veteran prosecutor, tells NBC4 she was diagnosed with typhus in November, after experiencing high fevers and excruciating headaches.

A veteran Los Angeles City Hall official is one of the latest victims of an epidemic of the infectious disease typhus that continues to worsen across LA County. For months, LA County public health ...