PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- Los Angeles County is dealing with an outbreak of the flea-borne disease typhus, but there are things you can do to help stop the spread of it. He's supposed to be man's ...

(CNN)-- A rise in typhus, a bacterial disease spread by lice or fleas, has hit the Los Angeles area, and public health officials are sounding the alarm. As of Monday, there have been 57 cases of ...

Several people in downtown Los Angeles have fallen sick with typhus, a disease spread by fleas that can cause organ damage if left untreated. L.A. County health officials said Thursday that they were ...

When Elizabeth Greenwood, a Los Angeles deputy city attorney, contracted typhus from a flea bite in her City Hall East office, two things happened. First, it breathed life back into the sensational ...

Medieval life has made its way to modern-day Los Angeles, where groups of 4,000 or more homeless people huddle together on city streets constituting a “typhus zone.” In the heart of this west coast ...

Some Skid Row residents are questioning whether the declaration of a typhus outbreak in downtown L.A. is being driven more by politics than public health. So far this year, L.A. County Department of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. A Monrovia woman contracted Typhus after ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — An outbreak of flea-borne typhus has hit downtown Los Angeles, the county Department of Public Health said Thursday. Health officials say they are investigating several cases of ...

An officer at the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Station has contracted Salmonella Typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid fever, and another is suspected of contracting typhus, a disease ...

Fleas bite and aren't potty trained. That's why there's now an outbreak of typhus in downtown Los Angeles, as announced by the Los Angeles Department of Health. Here's a CBS Los Angeles news segment ...

The U. S. Public Health Service and its National Institute of Health last week marked a specific treatment for typhus fever on the Scoreboard of Federal research in medicine. The disease has been a ...