With these classic symptoms and any possibility of a tick bite, treatment with doxycycline or another appropriate antibiotic should be immediately started as the disease can be deadly within the period when the test to confirm it could be performed. Although modern medical treatment has reduced the mortality rate from 30%, it is still deadly and kills dozens of people a year. There are about 800 reported cases in the United States every year.
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| rdfs:label
| - Rocky Mountain spotted fever
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| - With these classic symptoms and any possibility of a tick bite, treatment with doxycycline or another appropriate antibiotic should be immediately started as the disease can be deadly within the period when the test to confirm it could be performed. Although modern medical treatment has reduced the mortality rate from 30%, it is still deadly and kills dozens of people a year. There are about 800 reported cases in the United States every year.
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| symptom
| - Fever, nausea, vomitting, severe headache, muscle pain, anorexia, rash
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| Name
| - Rocky Mountain spotted fever
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| treatment
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| Cause
| - The bacteria Rickettsia rickettsii
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| abstract
| - With these classic symptoms and any possibility of a tick bite, treatment with doxycycline or another appropriate antibiotic should be immediately started as the disease can be deadly within the period when the test to confirm it could be performed. Although modern medical treatment has reduced the mortality rate from 30%, it is still deadly and kills dozens of people a year. There are about 800 reported cases in the United States every year.
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