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Mar 23, 2021 · Background. Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a tick-borne disease caused by the organism Rickettsia rickettsii. Although RMSF can be lethal, it is curable. RMSF is the most common rickettsial infection. The organism is endemic in parts of North, Central, and South America, especially in the southeastern and south-central United States.
The K2 authors first mapped the mountains of the world based on terrain characteristics, and then identified different mountain climate settings by allocating mountain areas into bioclimatic belts. Körner et al (2011) produced a map of global mountains based on ruggedness.
Aug 1, 2018 · In this article we first compare 3 characterizations of global mountain distributions, including a new, high-resolution (250 m) map of global mountains derived from terrain characteristics. We show how differences in conceptual definition, methodology, and spatial resolution of source data can result in differences in the extent and location of ...
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The Himalayas are by far the world’s highest mountain range with 14 peaks above 8,000m (peaks on other continents are all below 7,000m). Four natural world heritage sites are found in the Himalayas, with similar numbers in North America’s Rocky Mountains and South America’s Andean mountain chain. The Swiss Alps and Italian Dolomites are ...
Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a life-threatening disease caused by Rickettsia rickettsii, an obligately intracellular bacterium that is spread to human beings by ticks. More than a century after its first clinical description, this disease is still among the most virulent human infections identified, being potentially fatal even in previously healthy young people. The diagnosis of ...
In the episode Quarantine on Little House on the Prairie, a neighboring town Elmsville suffers a serious outbreak of a deadly mountain fever. Mr. Edwards, believing he is immune to the fever due to the fact is wife and daughter died to it, twakes Doc Baker to the town to help the sick. However, Mr. […]
