{"id":9056,"date":"2025-08-20T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9056"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:27:43","slug":"tick-borne-rocky-mountain-spotted-fever-spreading-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/tick-borne-rocky-mountain-spotted-fever-spreading-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Tick-borne Rocky Mountain spotted fever spreading in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec has reported a case of the potentially deadly tick-borne disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever that was likely acquired in Ontario or Quebec. The disease was also reported in dogs in Ontario earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to know about preventing, identifying and treating the disease.<\/p>\n<h2>What is Rocky Mountain spotted fever?<\/h2>\n<p>Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a disease caused by the bacteria <em>Rickettsia ricketssii.<\/em> It&#8217;s named for the fact that it was first identified in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0011502912000491\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rocky Mountain valleys of Idaho and Montana in the 1890s<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 also reported in dogs in Ontario earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to know about preventing, identifying and treating the disease.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/tick-borne-rocky-mountain-spotted-fever-spreading-in-canada\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tick-borne Rocky Mountain spotted fever spreading in Canada<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1364,83,96,1038,119,70,1363,1362,1365],"class_list":["post-9056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-american-dog-tick","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-lyme-disease","tag-ontario","tag-quebec","tag-rocky-mountain-spotted-fever","tag-tick-borne-diseases","tag-ticks","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9057,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056\/revisions\/9057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}