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Sawbones: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

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Unlike with Lyme disease, which is spread by ticks and the tick has to be attached for quite a while to get Lyme disease with Rocky Mountain spotted fever. It doesn't. You can actually get it pretty quickly from the tick. So Dr. Ricketts based on this story of the pubic hair tick began to investigate could ticks be the source. He collected 717 small animals and 4,500 ticks and tagged them as rickia bitterroot Valley Bitterroot. And tragically, he died of typhus in Mexico.

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