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Jun 21, 2017 · From waxing poetic or rewatching old Bob Ross episodes, to buying crampons and – get this – singling out the world’s dozen most iconic mountains. How does one even begin to do that?
Mar 31, 2017 · This Review explores the history of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Mexico, current epidemiology, and the multiple clinical, economic, and social challenges that must be considered in the control and prevention of this life-threatening illness.
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The term mountain fever is apparently a catch-all term referred to in many western histories. One histori- cal writer, George Stewart, speaks of this condition as "that vague disease called 'mountain fever,' which seems to have meant any fever you had when you were in the mountains."l Additionally, Dr. Ralph T. Richards, in his
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Jul 8, 2014 · Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a tickborne disease first recognized in 1896 in the Snake River Valley of Idaho. It was originally called “black measles” because of the look of its rash in the late stages of the illness, when the skin turns black.
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Like hiking? Then come and explore the plants and animals of seven of the world’s major mountain ranges! From the towering Himalayas to the austere Atlas Mountains, mountain ecosystems are chock full of interesting organisms. Often considered biological hotspots, many of these regions feature life forms with amazing adaptations to enable survival i...
A hike along Australia’s Great Dividing Range would reveal a series of plateaus and low mountain ranges roughly paralleling the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria. The mountain range extends some 2,300 miles (3,700 km) from the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, to the Grampians in Victoria Bass Strait between Australia and Tasmania....
Although Ethiopia’s complex relief defies easy classification, of the five topographic regions in the country only two (the Western Highlands and the Eastern Highlands) might be classified as mountain ecosystems. The most spectacular portion is the North Central massifs in the Western Highlands; these form the roof of Ethiopia, the highest being Mo...
Travelers to the Andes wouldn’t find a single line of formidable peaks but rather a succession of parallel and transverse mountain ranges, or cordilleras, mixed with intervening plateaus and depressions. Found along the whole western edge of South America, they stretch from Tierra del Fuego in the south all the way to the continent’s northernmost c...
For thousands of years the Himalayas have held a profound significance for the peoples of South Asia, as their literature, mythologies, and religions reflect. Since ancient times the vast glaciated heights have attracted the attention of the pilgrim mountaineers of India, who coined the Sanskrit name Himalaya—from hima (“snow”) and alaya (“abode”)—...
The Atlas system is a series of mountain ranges in northwestern Africa that run generally southwest to northeast across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. They extend for more than 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) from the Moroccan port of Agadir in the southwest to the Tunisian capital of Tunis in the northeast. Mount Toubkal at 13,665 feet (4,165 meter...
Some 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) long and more than 125 miles (201 kilometers) wide at their broadest point between Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and Verona, Italy, the Alps are the most prominent physiographic region in Western Europe. Mont Blanc, at 15,771 feet (4,807 meters), is the highest peak in the Alps. Other tall peaks in the Alps incl...
The Rocky Mountains are a massive cordillera made up of more than 100 separate mountain ranges stretching from Alberta and British Columbia to New Mexico. The spectacular vistas of the Rockies, such as St. Mary’s Lake in Montana’s Glacier National Park (see photo), have inspired countless mountain climbers, explorers, and even songwriters; John Den...
Jan 11, 2024 · Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is a bacterial disease spread through the bite on an infected tick. Includes information and data on the risk, number of cases, and geographic distribution of reported cases of spotted fever rickettsiosis including Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Jul 17, 2023 · Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is an acute febrile tick-borne illness caused by Rickettsia rickettsii. In North America, it is both the most severe and the most common rickettsial infection. Without prompt antibiotic treatment, mortality rates are as high as 20 to 30 percent.
