Tag Archive for PRO/AH/EDR> Rocky Mountain spotted fever – USA: (MN)
PRO/AH/EDR> Rocky Mountain spotted fever – USA: (MN)
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever -- United StatesA one-year-old boy has been in the intensive care unit for the last week under sedation fighting Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a rare tick-borne infection caused by a common wood tick. "It's so new a lot of the people we meet [at the hospital] say they have never seen a case here," said the mother.The infection is most common across the central USA from the Carolinas to Kansas, but it is suspected he picked it up in a new development in Buffalo, MN, which Read more [...]
