{"id":10114,"date":"2025-08-20T18:30:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10114"},"modified":"2025-08-20T18:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:30:49","slug":"tick-borne-rocky-mountain-spotted-fever-spreading-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/20\/tick-borne-rocky-mountain-spotted-fever-spreading-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Tick-borne Rocky Mountain spotted fever spreading in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/science\/rocky-mountain-spotted-fever-quebec-1.7613399\">CBC<\/a> Potentially deadly disease already found in Ontario and Quebec this year. Quebec has reported a&nbsp;case of the potentially deadly tick-borne disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever that was likely&nbsp;acquired in Ontario or Quebec. The disease was&nbsp;reported in dogs in Ontario earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to know about preventing, identifying and treating the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Rocky Mountain spotted fever?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a disease caused by the bacteria&nbsp;<em>Rickettsia ricketssii.<\/em>&nbsp;It&#8217;s named for the fact that it was first identified in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0011502912000491\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Rocky Mountain valleys&nbsp;of Idaho and Montana in the 1890s, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rocky Mountain valleys&nbsp;of Idaho and Montana in the 1890s<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Symptoms in humans can include fever, headache, nausea or vomiting, stomach pain, muscle pain and lack of appetite.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC Potentially deadly disease already found in Ontario and Quebec this year. Quebec has reported a&nbsp;case of the potentially deadly tick-borne disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever that was likely&nbsp;acquired in Ontario or Quebec. The disease was&nbsp;reported in dogs in Ontario earlier this year. Here&#8217;s what you need to know about preventing, identifying and treating the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tick-bourne-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10115,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10114\/revisions\/10115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}