Typhus is a disease caused by a group of bacteria called Rickettsia. Three forms of typhus are recognized: epidemic typhus, a serious disease that is fatal if not treated promptly; rat-flea or endemic typhus, a milder form of the disease; and scrub...

Throughout history, battles and wars have been lost due to typhus epidemics that spread among soldiers fighting in unsanitary conditions. After World War I, 25 million people in the Soviet Union alone were infected with the disease. People forced to...

Typhus is any one of several similar diseases caused by louse-borne bacteria. The name comes from the Greek typhos, meaning smoky or lazy, describing the state of mind of those affected with typhus. Rickettsia is endemic in rodent hosts, including mice...

Himachal Pradesh state of India is situated in the outer Himalayan ranges. During the rainy season, several cases of acute febrile illness of unknown origin occurred. Orientia tsutsugamushi was identified as the causative agent by microimmunofluorescence and PCR. Two new genotypes of O....

SCIENTISTS HAVE broken the genetic code of one of the biggest killers in the history of infectious disease - and in the process revealed how animals came to breathe oxygen. A genetic analysis of epidemic typhus, which killed millions in the aftermath of...

A Vienna court on Wednesday ruled that British author David Irving, convicted on charges of denying the Holocaust, should serve the rest of his three-year sentence on probation.Vienna's highest court granted Irving's appeal and ruled to convert two-thirds of Irving's three-year sentence into probation, the...

A Vienna court on Wednesday ruled that British author David Irving, convicted on charges of denying the Holocaust, should serve the rest of his three-year sentence on probation.Vienna's highest court granted Irving's appeal and ruled to convert two-thirds of Irving's three-year sentence into probation, the...