Infected fleas can be carried by rats, opossums, cats and dogs. Experts say the disease is commonly found in stray cats, but ...

A 12-year-old girl from Waco, Texas, spent six days in the hospital after flea-borne typhus triggered septic shock.

DEAR READERS: An estimated 10% of people in the U.S., and about one-third of the global population, are infected with Toxoplasma gondii: a common parasitic protozoan found in cat feces. Researchers ...

A debilitating form of typhus spread by fleas and thought to be mostly gone from the Gulf Coast until a few years ago has, in ...

A 12-year-old Waco athlete spent six days at McLane Children’s Hospital after flea-borne typhus triggered septic shock, and ...

Researchers at Texas A&M University have formally confirmed that stray cats in Hidalgo County carry fleas infected with R. typhi, a bacteria that causes murine typhus infections. (Marc Andreu/) Cases ...

Cases of a once-rare bacterial disease have been on the rise in South Texas over the last several years and now researchers with Texas A&M University have formally linked the illness to flea-infested ...

Mosquitoes are often considered the most dangerous “animal” on Earth. They carry and transmit a multitude of horrible diseases. Malaria, EEE, and West Nile Virus are just a few of them. Rivaling them ...

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

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

A new study detected Rickettsia typhi in cat fleas, shedding light on the possible role of domestic cats in murine typhus transmission.

As human cases of flea-borne murine typhus continue to occur in South Texas, researchers are working to better understand the role cats and their fleas may play in the disease's transmission cycle. In ...