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A Lethal Disease Hidden in Plain Sight in Mexico
November 17, 2024
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Brian W. Simpson,
Editor-in-chief
It’s among the deadliest of severe infectious diseases. It moves rapidly to damage all tissues and organs. It causes telltale red spots to erupt on the body.
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) is also bacterial threat that continues to spread in the Americas because of a lack of research and awareness, according to experts at a Nov. 14, 2024, session at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.
RMSF’s case fatality rate (CFR) in recent years has rivaled that of dengue, yellow fever, and bubonic plague. Its CFR has ranged from 5% in Arizona to nearly 40% in parts of Mexico and above 50% in Sao Paulo, Brazil, according to data presented by the Christopher Paddock of the CDC’s Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch...
A Lethal Disease Hidden in Plain Sight in Mexico
November 17, 2024
Photo of Brian Simpson
Brian W. Simpson,
Editor-in-chief
It’s among the deadliest of severe infectious diseases. It moves rapidly to damage all tissues and organs. It causes telltale red spots to erupt on the body.
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) is also bacterial threat that continues to spread in the Americas because of a lack of research and awareness, according to experts at a Nov. 14, 2024, session at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.
RMSF’s case fatality rate (CFR) in recent years has rivaled that of dengue, yellow fever, and bubonic plague. Its CFR has ranged from 5% in Arizona to nearly 40% in parts of Mexico and above 50% in Sao Paulo, Brazil, according to data presented by the Christopher Paddock of the CDC’s Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch...