Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever -- United States
A 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 also happens to be his backyard.
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8382840&promed&0
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