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 ...

Typhus is a group of infections caused by three strains of bacteria belonging to the Rickettsiaceae family. Reviewed by a board-certified physician.

What is Typhus or Typhus Disease? Typhus or typhus is a disease that often occurs during the rainy season and must be watched out for, especially in children. Typhus in children is generally caused by ...

WHEN a clinician is consulted by a patient who formerly lived in an epidemic typhus zone and who now has fever, headache and possibly a rash, he must include Brill's disease in his differential ...

The nearer the Army & Navy get to Japan, the more often they encounter tsutsugamushi (Japanese for “dangerous bug fever”). It is also known as scrub typhus, is related to epidemic typhus ...

But the same bacterium-like organism can cause the terrible European epidemic typhus, which is spread by human lice and kills from 5 to 70% of its victims, depending on the virulence of the organism.

Introduction Scrub typhus is a mite-borne infectious disease caused by the intracellular Gram-negative bacteria Orientia tsutsugamushi. It is an acute febrile illness with the characteristic findings ...

Scrub typhus is spread to people through bites of infected mites and can be fatal. Here are its serious signs, most common symptoms, treatment, prevention tips ...

Health experts are alarmed at a spike in typhus cases in Los Angeles County, where three recent deaths have been attributed to the disease.

In contrast, flea-borne typhus is endemic in many parts of the world, though it tends to cause milder illness than its cousin. Symptoms include fever, headache, and a distinctive rash.

The cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis) can spread the bacterial disease typhus to humans. (Image credit: NNehring via Getty Images) Typhus spread by infected fleas is on the rise in L.A. County.