State health officials are raising the alarm about a rare flea-caused illness they believe is on the rise. Health officials ...

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 ...

The Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners is alerting health care providers to an increase in flea-borne typhus ...

Flea-borne typhus is a bacterial disease spread to people by infected fleas found on rats, free-roaming cats, possums, and ...

A flea-borne disease that was once largely eradicated from the U.S. may be making a resurgence, CDC researchers said during a clinician-focused call on Thursday. Murine typhus became so rare after ...

Flea-borne typhus cases in Los Angeles county have reached an all-time high, according to an April report by LA County public ...

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 been a ...

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 ...

Typhus is a disease many thought was a thing of the past. Now, it's making a comeback. Health officials are reporting a rise in cases, especially in Texas. As Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies ...