The United States in 2025 has recorded its worst measles epidemic in more than 30 years, according to a count released Monday ...

The West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District has announced that two human cases of flea-borne typhus have been ...

Over 16,000 people were infected with the potentially fatal disease last year as the parasite spread beyond rural areas.

However, contrary response was obtained in another study recently made of 26 cases of Brill's disease in Yugoslavia, where 21 of the 26 patients could clearly recall an attack of typhus seven to ...

Scrub typhus or bush typhus is an infection caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. The manner through which it is transmitted is by the bites of infected chiggers, or scrab mites which are mostly in ...

Risk of epidemic typhus outbreak during the recent war in Ukraine In Ukraine, around 1.8 million individuals are over eighty years of age, and some individuals from this group might have ...

The Google Doodle for today, September 2, celebrates the 138th birthday of Polish scientist Rudolf Weigl who developed the first effective vaccine against epidemic typhus—one of the oldest and ...

Epidemic typhus is one of the oldest and most infectious diseases. Weigl was born on this day in 1883 in the Austro-Hungarian town of Przerów, know known as the Czech Republic.

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 138th birthday of Polish biologist and inventor of the epidemic typhus vaccine, Rudolf Weigl. Rudolf Weigl was born in Austria-Hungary on September 2, 1883 ...

But the doctor immediately assured me that I didn’t have “World War II typhus,” as he described (a.k.a. epidemic typhus, a now-rare disease that killed millions of people in the past when it ...

An epidemic in England that came to be referred to as the “Black Assizes” was the result of the disease being introduced into the courtroom by prisoners who had been incarcerated in filthy cells.