{"id":83010,"date":"2025-08-20T06:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83010\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T06:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:25:12","slug":"quebec-reports-first-case-of-tick-borne-rocky-mountain-spotted-fever-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83010\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec reports first case of tick-borne Rocky Mountain spotted fever &#8211; Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Staff<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted August 19, 2025 2:56 pm<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated August 19, 2025 3:56 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Quebec\u00a0health officials say a first case of a tick-borne bacterial disease common in the United States has been detected in the province.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755073388_375_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The single case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever was reported in the Eastern Townships region east of\u00a0Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/healthiq.jpg\" alt=\"Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet weekly health news<\/p>\n<p>Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Carignan, an epidemiologist with the local health authority, says on X that the patient responded well to antibiotic treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Carignan notes the infection causes high fevers, a distinctive rash, and can lead to death if improperly treated.<\/p>\n<p>The infection is transmitted by the dermacentor tick, also known as the American dog tick.<\/p>\n<p>Carignan says experts assumed the disease would arrive in\u00a0Quebec, but he says the first case was detected earlier than expected.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 19, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Health<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 19, 2025 2:56 pm Updated August 19, 2025 3:56 pm 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84,49746,49747],"class_list":["post-83010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-rocky-mountain-spotted-fever","tag-tick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}