Rocky Mountain spotted fever

Table of Contents

Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics

Images

Rocky Mountain spotted fever

Rocky Mountain wood tick

Discover

Ice Sledge Hockey, Hockey Canada Cup, USA (left) vs Canada, 2009. UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, BC, competition site for Olympic ice hockey and Paralympic ice sledge hockey. Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver Olympics

10 Best Hockey Players of All Time

Artist interpretation of a Space meteoroid impact. Meteor impact. Asteroid, End of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Planet Earth, Doomsday Predictions, comet

10 Failed Doomsday Predictions

Agnes with a lamb near her feet. St. Agnes (Saint Agnes) design drawing for stained glass window by J&R Lamb Studios, ink, mount size 10.5 x 14.5 in.

Roman Catholic Saints

NBA Lakers Celtics Finals Kevin Garnett shooting.

10 Great Sports Rivalries

July, 2006, Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121. See attached for full caption information.

Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?

Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"

How Deadly Is Quicksand?

Submerged sperm whale off east Sri Lanka coast, mammal

How Did the Sperm Whale Get Its Name?

Rocky Mountain spotted fever: Facts & Related Content

Written and fact-checked by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As	São Paulo fever

Photos

Rocky Mountain spotted fever

Rocky Mountain wood tick

See All Images →

Topics

typhus tick fever boutonneuse fever lone star tick Amblyomma cajennense Rocky Mountain wood tick American dog tick Rickettsia rickettsii zoonotic disease malaria tuberculosis plague Ebola bird flu anthrax rabies mpox Lyme disease schistosomiasis

Key People

Howard T. Ricketts

American pathologist

Quiz

44 Questions from Britannica’s Most Popular Health and Medicine Quizzes