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mg that each year health othcials see deaths due to Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, a disease that does not discriminate in its attacks.
“Anyone can succumb to its effects,” he explained. Young children, the elderly and those already weakened by another condition are not necessarily the most succeptible to the fever.
The symptoms, which typically begin two to 12 days after being bitten by an infected tick, include headache, chills, fever, severe muscle aches and nausea or vomiting.
The symptoms, like those of Lyme disease, are flu-like, and can be treated in their early stages with a simple prescription of tetracycline, the same drug used to treat Lyme disease.
Although Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is more common from May through October, in the first four months of this year two Virginians were diagnosed with the disease.
So far this year there have been 32 cases of Lyme disease diagnosed in the state, nearly all in the coastal areas, Dr. Bums said. None were in the northwest region, which includes Rappahannock County.
The common dog tick, carrier of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, usually finds its way into homes on family pets. But it more commonly finds its victims in grassy meadows, woodlands and brush. It perches on
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