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...

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...

David Irving, the British author who was released on probation after spending 13 months in prison for denying the Holocaust, returned to England on Thursday.Vienna's highest court on Wednesday granted Irving's appeal and converted two-thirds of his sentence into probation. He had been imprisoned for...

Relatives of Anne Frank will loan a collection of photographs and letters to the museum housing the Jewish teenager's hiding place during World War II to mark next week's 60th anniversary of the publication of her diary.The material, which comes from the Anne Frank archive...