To assess the clinical efficacy of short-course doxycycline in the treatment of scrub typhus, we compared conventional 7-day tetracycline therapy with 3-day doxycycline therapy in 116 patients.

For patients with this tropical mite-borne bacterial illness, intravenous doxycycline and azithromycin reduced incidence of the composite of all-cause mortality at day 28, persistent complications at ...

The group of disorders is spread by infected fleas, lice and chiggers. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced on Thursday that it is actively investigating an outbreak of typhus ...

SAN ANTONIO — A patient undergoing treatment in a San Antonio hospital has captured the attention of the nation. The man contracted typhus. One month later, the 35-year-old lost his hands and toes.

Fleaborne typhus is on the rise in Los Angeles County, with reported cases nearly tripling over the past decade, from 31 in 2010 to 171 in 2022. The disease can be severe but is rarely fatal, and ...

Visakhapatnam: Scrub typhus typically manifests as an acute undifferentiated febrile illness (a sudden-onset fever of varying severity without a clearly identifiable cause), with symptoms including ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Long Beach is experiencing a “significant” ...