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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists say they’ve discovered traces of the deadly pathogens that ravaged Napoleon’s soldiers during his doomed 1812 retreat from Russia — offering a clearer picture of the circumstances of the ...

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 ...

Napoleon, the remains of his lice-ridden army, and typhus. (Art by Carlos Ayala/Courthouse News, using some AI-generated elements) (CN) — In June 1812, French leader Napoleon Bonaparte led his troops ...

Relapsing fever, meanwhile, causes repeated cycles of high fever, chills, muscle aches, and extreme fatigue. The fact that B. recurrentis is carried by lice means it could flourish among soldiers ...

In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led about half a million soldiers to invade the Russian Empire. But by December, only a fraction of the army remained alive. Historical records ...

Napoleon’s withdrawal from Russia in 1812 was one of history’s most disastrous retreats. New research bolsters the theory that diseases made the calamitous situation even worse. Researchers in France ...