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Doctor issues urgent warning over alarming uptick in infectious disease spread by insects: '[It's] basically a 12-fold rise'
Doctors shared that cat and dog owners should especially take the situation seriously. Doctor issues urgent warning over ...
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Rare flea-borne disease could be resurging: CDC
CDC researchers warned clinicians March 27 about a potential resurgence of murine typhus, a rare flea-borne disease, according to MedPage Today.  Murine typhus, caused by the bacteria Rickettsia typhi ...
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Clinicians Should Be on the Lookout for Murine Typhus, CDC Says
A flea-borne disease that was once largely eradicated from the U.S. may be making a resurgence, CDC researchers said during a ...
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The Nearly Eradicated Murine Typhus Is Making A Comeback, CDC Says
Most cases of the flea-borne disease are cropping up in Texas and California, and it may be due to cat fleas finding a new host — possums. Other outbreak news includes new genetic identifiers for ...
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Flea biology
Fleas are one of the best-known groups of parasitic insect due to their notoriety as pests and their medical and veterinary importance as vectors of disease, such as the plague, myxomatosis and murine ...
'Overlooked' scrub typhus may affect 1 in 10 in rural India and be a leading cause of hospitalizations for fever
A study of more than 32,000 people living in Tamil Nadu, India, suggests scrub typhus infection may affect up to 10% of rural ...