Moroccan nobles uttered passionate but unavailing prayers, last week, as a typhus epidemic spreading from the Arab slums of Fez entered at last the cool and sumptuous palace of the Sultan Mulai Yusef, ...

Alex Hershaft remembers the special comb. He and his family were living in the Warsaw ghetto. It was 1940. He was a little boy, about 6 years old. A disease known as epidemic typhus was spreading ...

There was an epidemic of typhus in Naples last week—not the mild kind that lurks in some U.S. rats and mice, but the European epidemic typhus that kills 20 out of 100 victims and held up the Austrian ...

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 ...

A new study offers compelling genetic evidence that head and body lice are the same species. The finding is of special interest because body lice can transmit deadly bacterial diseases, while head ...

Presented at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society Boston, May 23, 1944. This article has been released for publication by the Division of Publications of the Bureau of Medicine and ...