The potentially life-threatening disease was nearly eradicated decades ago, but now it is back and taking on Texas.

Texas researchers say this flea-borne disease in cats has made its comeback. Specifically, in the Rio Grande Valley and ...

As human cases of flea-borne murine typhus continue to occur in South Texas, researchers are working to better understand the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Officials in Los Angeles County have warned residents that typhus, a serious and potentially fatal flea-borne ...

Texas is seeing an explosion of cases of typhus, a disease that – if untreated – can be fatal. Typhus was almost eradicated from the United States, but now it's making a comeback. Typhus is a disease ...

In 1489, during the Spanish army siege of Granada, the outbreak of typhus was initially recorded. It was during the early 20th century, a French bacteriologist, Charles Nicolle noticed hot water ...

If scrub typhus is not treated, it can last for 14 to 21 days and result in death (Picture Credit: IANS) What is Scrub Typhus: Scrub typhus, often known as bush typhus, is a bacterial infection caused ...

You’d think that with all our modern medicine, sanitation, pest control, and fancy hospitals, typhus would be something folks only read about in history books. But nope, it’s showing up again in ...

PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- Los Angeles County is dealing with an outbreak of the flea-borne disease typhus, but there are things you can do to help stop the spread of it. He's supposed to be man's ...

At least six people have died due to the scrub typhus infection in Odisha, which spreads through bites of infected chiggers (larval mites). The latest scrub typhus death has been reported from ...