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 ...

Note: The NBC4 I-Team has an update on the typhus outbreak. Please see the results of the I-Team's latest investigation Here. A flea-borne typhus outbreak among homeless in downtown Los Angeles ...

“The sidewalks weren’t ever intended for habitation, our storm drains were never intended for human waste, and rats [are] crawling all over people,” said Estela Lopez, executive director of the L.A.

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A man hospitalized for dehydration a few months ago at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center started suffering a severe fever, and doctors weren’t sure why. The patient was homeless, a clue to doctors ...

LOS ANGELES – The City Council voted Wednesday to settle a lawsuit that has altered Los Angeles’ policies on seizing the property of homeless people on Skid Row, and the decision will likely limit the ...

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 ...