The Strange Origins of Mountain Fever

This was one of the most feared among settlers because if we went back and did statistics at the time, it had up to like a 30% mortality rate. This also could have been called just mountain fever. There are a lot of different tick-borne illnesses as well as just other random things that settlers got. And they kind of called them all the same thing. They were really spotting on your face when you throw up. If you throw up too hard, yes. Good job. You're learning things.