Outbreak of Brazilian Spotted Fever in Greater Campinas

... The main reservoir for Brazilian Spotted Fever is capivaras, who are bitten by ticks that then spread the infection to people...

https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/equilibri … m-sp.shtml
-@abthree

I live half-time split between Sao Jose do Rio Preto, SP to the northwest of Campinas, and in the city of SP to the south of Campinas. Rio Preto has a lovely lake and park in the middle of the city with many capivara. Cute little furry guys, but there has always been an ongoing concern for ticks and spotted fever from them. The city posts a number of signs attempting to keep people away from them, but you know how people are. It is sad to hear the problem might be getting worse. More recently, the city has fenced off the area of the lake where the little guys like to hang out.

People often forget the oldest diseases on our planet have never gone away. The US continually has new cases of black plaque, the plague that killed a full 1/3 of the entire population of our planet, from animal tick bites, yet people love to feed the cute little squirrels, etc. [link under review] who has ever seen or helped to treat a case never feeds the cute little critters again, I have, and I would not. I urge everyone to stay away from all those cute furry little animals and where they live such as having a picnic on the nice grass, the results of a tick bite can be rather extraordinary, and not in a good way. Untreated Brazilian Spotted Fever has a very high mortality rate, (death) of up to 25% of cases. Death primarily occurs when the symptoms are not recognized or denied, and diagnosis is not made until the second week of illness.

It's a mosquito or bug. Not a virus outbreak. If you live in a densely urban population, very scant change of catching it.   

Notice the source as pinpointed to a rural gated farm on the outskirts of Campinas. 

Campinas, as large as it is ( pop 1 million ), is very sprawly . 

Thank you for sending out this information!  We live in Campinas and actually just heard about this yesterday.

06/16/23 Thank you for sending out this information! We live in Campinas and actually just heard about this yesterday.
-@Droplover

You're very welcome.  Please note that this is a tick-borne illness with no human-to-human transmission, so any danger is very controllable.  Avoiding good tick habitat, especially if it's also capivara habitat, taking the anti-tick measures outlined above, and respecting any of the signs already posted and being posted that warn of tick habitat should let you go about your daily life without much worry, even if you live in an area with a lot of green space.

It's a mosquito or bug. Not a virus outbreak. If you live in a densely urban population, very scant change of catching it. 
Notice the source as pinpointed to a rural gated farm on the outskirts of Campinas.

Campinas, as large as it is ( pop 1 million ), is very sprawly .
-@sprealestatebroker

I am sorry, but I do need to correct you. No, like Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, the Brazilian version is not viral, it is caused by Rickettsia rickettsii is a gram-negative, intracellular, coccobacillus bacterium. Yes, I teach pre-med science, including microbiology. I have never read, or heard of any document showing Brazilian or Rocky Mountain spotted fever to be spread by mosquito bites, it is spread quite accidentally only by tick bites.

Epidemiolgy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6750615/

From the ministry of Health, "The disease is transmitted by the bite of an infected tick". https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/sau … 0analysis.

If you can find any legitimate source of information stating the bite from a mosquito can transmit Rickettsia rickettsii, please share this with me, I would honestly enjoy reading it.