Fleaborne typhus is on the rise in Los Angeles County, with reported cases nearly tripling over the past decade, from 31 in 2010 to 171 in 2022. The disease can be severe but is rarely fatal, and ...

A Texas man has lost his hands and parts of his feet after contracting a severe case of typhus from a flea bite. The infectious disease is caused by bacteria.

A study of more than 32,000 people living in Tamil Nadu, India, suggests scrub typhus infection may affect up to 10% of rural populations annually and is a leading yet under-recognized cause of ...

The U. S. Public Health Service and its National Institute of Health last week marked a specific treatment for typhus fever on the Scoreboard of Federal research in medicine. The disease has ...

A potentially deadly disease, scrub typhus, spread by chiggers has been found in the United States for the first time, thus far only in North Carolina.

Typhus is at present no menace to the U.S. But it might conceivably become the dreaded scourge it is in Europe. The heavy U.S. typhus season was just beginning last week, and the best guess was ...

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

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 seeing an ...

The chiggers carrying a bacteria that can cause scrub typhus were found in several North Carolina state parks and recreation areas.

Scrub Typhus: What is it? Know symptoms, causes, prevention tips and other details The scrub typhus infection spreads when a chigger bites someone. Persons who frequently visit farmland or forests ...