Everyone loves cats; they're amazing. They're also carrying strains of typhus into households thanks to fleas.

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

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

About six out of every ten infectious diseases known to affect humans started in animals at some point. COVID reminded the ...

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

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

Mention the term “American Revolutionary War” and what comes to mind is an image of soldiers wielding mortars and muskets, ...

In the news we’ve been hearing about rising numbers of cases of typhus in…Santa Monica? Historically, millions of people died from epidemic outbreaks, usually during war, famine or other times of ...

The real story of Valley Forge is stranger than the myth. Disease, deception, and 12,000 soldiers who built an army from scratch ...

A new art exhibit might have the chance to set a new soccer world record: longest continuous use of a tifo. Up now thru Aug 30 at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, American Tifo consists ...

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 ...

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