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

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

The summer heat has crept in — and with it the critters that have owners and pets alike itching. Fleas, in particular, have a ...

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.

Murine typhus cases are more common in tropical and subtropical climates. California, Texas, and Hawaii have reported cases to the CDC, but the disease is not typically seen in the U.S.

The organ donor had died of an illness attributed to a non-infectious etiology, he added, but CDC testing confirmed the donor did indeed have murine typhus. Paddock showed data from Texas that ...

During this COCA Call, presenters will review the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of murine typhus, and discuss its re-emergence in the United States. The 2025 CDC Training for Bacterial ...

Murine typhus is treated with the antibiotic doxycycline, and people treated early with doxycycline usually quickly recover, the CDC said. There is no evidence of persistent or chronic infections.

For murine typhus, 74 cases were recorded in 2024, almost triple the 25 cases seen in 2023. The MOH bulletin did not mention any hantavirus cases.

Most medical opinion holds that Chloromycetin is just about the best drug against psittacosis (“parrot fever”), of which there has been a recent median of 60 U.S. cases a year; against typhoid ...

Well, rats. A study of 16 cities shows that higher ambient temperatures and loss of green space are associated with increasing rodent complaints.