Medical history: When a typhus epidemic killed thousands at the height of the Second World War An excerpt from ‘1945: The Reckoning – War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World’, by Phil ...

Is There Really a Chronic Disease Epidemic? It’s Complicated. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to return the nation to a time when he believes Americans were healthier. Not so fast, many researchers say.

The Epidemic Intelligence Service has been a crucial tool in fighting diseases at home and abroad. Its impact would be impossible to replace.

Scrub typhus is caused by the bacterium 'Orientia tsutsugamushi', which belongs to the rickettsia family. Severe illness due to the infection, if left untreated, can cause death.

This paper presents data on antibodies to epidemic typhus found in serums obtained from 519 American and foreign-born persons now residents of the metropolitan area of Boston.

Members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a legendary training program run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were warned on Friday morning that most of them were about to be ...

There was an epidemic of typhus in Naples last week—not the mild kind that lurks in some U.S. rats and mice, but the European epidemic typhus that kills 20 out of 100 victims and held up the ...

Donald Trump's return to the White House presents an opportunity to overhaul federal dietary guidelines, which lack scientific rigor and have contributed to the chronic disease epidemic in America.

Public health advisories have been posted near the intersection of Slater Avenue and Magnolia Street in Fountain Valley after a case of flea-borne typhus was detected in the area.

Fort Worth A North Texas city is seeing an increase in cases of flea-borne typhus, a bacterial disease transmitted by fleas. Collin County Health Care Services announced last week that McKinney is ...

Pasadena has seen ‘elevated number’ of typhus cases, officials say As of May this year, eight residents have reported typhus fever, city officials said Thursday, June 13.

Moroccan nobles uttered passionate but unavailing prayers, last week, as a typhus epidemic spreading from the Arab slums of Fez entered at last the cool and sumptuous palace of the Sultan Mulai ...