“Pets can pick up fleas from direct contact with other animals, such as at a dog park, pet store, kennel or the beach,” ...

For two weeks, the boy fought for his life while a typhus-spreading bacterial infection called rickettsiosis ravaged his body. It had been transmitted by blood-sucking lice in his hometown of ...

Typhus can be transmitted by infected fleas, mites and lice that live on small animals like dogs, cats, rats, mice and squirrels, and can be carried by humans on their skin, hair and clothes.

Rickettsial diseases, or rickettsioses, are a diverse group of bacterial infections that are spreading and/or reappearing, especially in South-East Asia, including Malaysia.

Fleas also can spread disease-causing bacteria to people, including Bartonella henselae, the cause of cat scratch fever; Yersinia pestis, the cause of bubonic plague; and Rickettsia typhi, the ...

President Donald Trump has announced a new trade agreement with Vietnam, setting tariffs at 20% on many Vietnamese exports.

Letter Published: 07 June 1969 Prevalence of Leptotrombidium deliense, the Scrub Typhus Vector, in the Eastern Himalayas R. N. VARMA Nature 222, 984–985 (1969) Cite this article ...

Flea-borne (murine) typhus is caused by the bacteria Rickettsia spp., which can be found in cat fleas. Little is known about its effect on cats, but it can cause illness in humans.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — On what would have been Anne Frank’s 96th birthday, a group of Staten Island students was recognized for channeling her legacy of hope and resilience into powerful works ...