Pet owners are being urged to protect themselves and their pets after the city experienced a record number of cases of the ...
Summer heat, check. Mosquitoes, check. Labor Day traffic, check. Now add fleas carrying typhus fever to things Southern Californians have to worry about this weekend. A report from the Los Angeles ...
A fluorescent image of a human body louse with Yersinia pestis infection — that's the cause of the plague — depicted in orange/red in the glands. The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also ...
The Los Angeles County Public Health Department identified 220 cases of flea-borne typhus last year, a big increase over the ...
Los Angeles County is experiencing a record number of flea-borne typhus cases, and nearly 90% of patients have had to be ...
I was bustling through one of the classrooms when I heard a gentle, soothing voice talking to the rats. She was saying sweet ...
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. The plague — which in the mid-14th ...