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 ...

In mid-August, a human case of flea-borne typhus — previously called murine typhus — was confirmed in Fountain Valley, California. It's the fifth human case of the rare disease this year, with all but ...

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 ...

Orange County vector control officials are urging residents to keep their pets, bodies and homes flea free, after a human case of flea-borne typhus was detected in the city of Fountain Valley earlier ...

Cases of flea-borne typhus have steadily risen in LA over the past decade. Three people died from the bacterial infection last year, as well. Reading time 3 minutes A disease spread by fleas is ...

Scientists have developed an animal model of scrub typhus using outbred CD-1 mice. Using the model, they have characterized host susceptibility to the causative pathogen, disease pathogenesis, and ...

Typhus is a disease many people thought was a thing of the past. It is not. It's making a comeback. Health officials are reporting a rise in typhus cases, especially in Texas, one of the states where ...