New research suggests stray cats and infected fleas may be tied to murine typhus cases in South Texas.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A California neighborhood seems to have had a series of encounters with the now-rare disease typhus. According to local media reports, at least two people in Monrovia, California recently caught ...