The Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District (OCMVCD) has identified an increased risk of flea-borne typhus in the City of Santa Ana.
Flea-borne typhus is a potentially fatal disease that is primarily found in fleas that live on feral and domestic cats, dogs, opossums, rats, raccoons, skunks, squirrels and rabbits.
Fleas defecate as they feed. Humans can be infected when flea feces containing the bacteria are scratched into the bite site, other wounds, or are inhaled, eaten, or transferred to the eye…