Deadly Rocky Mountain spotted fever likely came from Mexico amid border crisis, CDC admits

Adding to the concerns of a wide open southern border, Americans are worried about contracting the deadly Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

With suspected terrorists and sex offenders being among the 8 million illegal immigrants who have entered the United States during President Biden’s first three years in office, not to mention untold amounts of fentanyl as drug overdose deaths topped 100,000 in 2023, there is now a reported outbreak of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in Southern California.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a  href="https://x.com/CDCgov/status/1733260222196527197?s=20" target="_blank">health advisory acknowledging that the infectious disease likely came from Mexico.

According to Fox News, there have been three deaths out of a total of five reported cases—four of the five were under the age of 18, and, all of the affected people had recently traveled to or lived in Mexico.

“There have been reports of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) in people traveling to the United States from Tecate, in the state of Baja California, Mexico,” the CDC said online. “RMSF has been found in urban areas of several states of northern Mexico, including but not exclusive to Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Nuevo León.”

The bacteria is spread by ticks, which dogs can carry into homes.

“Symptoms of RMSF include fever, headache, and rash. The rash usually appears about 2–4 days after onset of symptoms. However, some patients never develop a rash,” the CDC website said. “The disease can rapidly progress and be deadly if not treated early with the recommended antibiotic. Children younger than ten years old are five times more likely than adults to die from RMSF.”

Dr. Marc Siegel, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center and a Fox News medical contributor, expressed the apparent concern even though the cases are currently isolated.

“What’s most interesting about these cases is that they are occurring in Mexico, and I do worry that with our porous borders, these ticks carrying disease could cross [into the U.S.] with migrants,” he said.

“I look for it whenever I am on the lookout for tick-borne diseases, but it is a different tick than Lyme,” Siegel added. “The dog tick is larger and lacks the characteristic white spot of deer ticks.”

All five cases of the tick borne disease that identified in Southern California and involved people who had been to Tecate, Baja California, in the previous two weeks.

Not everyone develops the classic “spotted” rash after contracting the disease. Siegel cautioned, “The problem is that symptoms are flu-like and somewhat generic; so it can be easily missed.”