A new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that tickborne relapsing fever (TBRF) is endemic to the mountainous regions of the western United States, particularly ...

HELENA — Todd Damrow, the state's top disease tracker, calls them "a tiny bag of blood," the ugliest ticks he's ever seen. Just 5 millimeters across, leathery and pale, the Ornithodoros hermsi, or ...

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have genetically analyzed the remains of former soldiers who retreated from Russia in 1812. They detected two pathogens, those responsible for paratyphoid fever ...

Scientists at Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Baylor College of Medicine have sequenced the genome of the disease-spreading soft tick. The ectoparasite carries human relapsing fever and is a potential ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

In the summer of 1812, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led approximately 500,000 soldiers on a campaign to conquer Russia but suffered a devastating defeat. It is widely reported that a significant ...