This became easier to do once I got my own diagnosis: spotted fever.

And now that her father had succumbed to spotted fever, she was alone.

In 1916 he published an article about spotted fever.

Results from a definitive laboratory test for spotted fever take 10 days or longer, by which time a patient might die.

Older children told us we'd get Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a disease spread by ticks.

A spotted fever is a type of tick-borne disease which presents on the skin.

Spotted Fever rarely, if ever, occurs more than once because the body usually becomes immune for life.

One common distinguishing symptom of spotted fever is swelling, especially around the eyes.

"You might want to be cleaning your sword there, sir- seeing as how this one died of the spotted fever."

He had never seen Rocky Mountain spotted fever - maybe she was right.

It is most like a plucked pullet which has died of the spotted fever.

"That might have protected her against the Rocky Mountain spotted fever."

Later he helped develop the first effective treatment against Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

He also received international recognition for his research on Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the 1940's.

It had broken out upon the surface, like the spotted fever, but his system was clear of it elsewhere.

An epidemic of spotted fever contributed to this defeat.

Rocky Mountain spotted fever remains a serious and potentially life-threatening infectious disease.

"I just heard they suspect Rocky Mountain spotted fever," the nurse said.

"It's not like they're stricken with spotted fever, general."

As a young man, he had the spotted fever," Megaera says flatly.

These workers were likewise afflicted with spotted fever.

Had they tested her for Rocky Mountain spotted fever?

The name Rocky Mountain spotted fever is somewhat of a misnomer.

At the same time, physicians, even those who practice in cities, must think of Rocky Mountain spotted fever as a possible diagnosis.