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Mar 25, 2024 · When to Go to the ER. Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a bacterial illness caused by a bite from an infected tick. Symptoms include high fever and widespread rash. In the United States, there are 4,000–6,000 reports of tick-borne spotted fevers, including RMSF, each year. It's the deadliest tick-borne illness in the world.
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a big part of the 1947 Republic Pictures movie Driftwood, starring Walter Brennan, James Bell, Dean Jagger, Natalie Wood, and Hobart Cavanaugh. [citation needed] In December 2013, hockey player Shane Doan was diagnosed with Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and returned to play in January 2014. Other names
Feb 19, 2024 · This map, produced in 1944, shows major “tropical diseases” and where they occur in the world. A stylized image of the vector or symptoms of the disease is drawn over each afflicted region. Along the bottom of the map is a key describing which image refers to which disease, with a short block of text giving more background about each ...
Nov 2, 2020 · After decades of quiescence, RMSF re-emerged in northern Mexico, a historically endemic region, in the early 2000s. 18, 19 Sonora is one of the most impacted states in northern Mexico, with 1,394 cases reported during the period 2003–2016, and a historic case fatality rate (CFR) of 18%. 20 In 2015, because of an increase in cases and deaths ...
- Diego I. Álvarez-López, Estefanía Ochoa-Mora, Kristen Nichols Heitman, Alison M. Binder, Gerardo Álv...
- 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0854
- 2021
- Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 Jan; 104(1): 190-197.
Nov 25, 2019 · Mountaineering -- Washington (State) -- Rainier, Mount -- History -- 19th century, Rainier, Mount (Wash.) -- History -- 19th century, Mount Rainier National Park (Wash.) -- History Publisher Seattle : University of Washington Press Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English
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The illness begins with headache, fever, and chills, soon followed by pain in the bones and joints, weakness, and fatigue. A rash develops in the first week of illness, beginning on the extremities and spreading to the trunk. It is more profuse than the rash of epidemic typhus and affects the face as well as the body.
Nov 2, 2020 · Proportion of fatal and nonfatal cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Sonora, Mexico, 2015-2018, among all cases (Map A) and persons aged < 18 years (Map B).
