Local woman confirmed with tick-borne illness

Friday, June 20, 2014

Editor's note: After a June 17 Daily Statesman article stating that the Stoddard County Health Department had no reported cases of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in the county, a few calls were received to the contrary. One such call was from a local woman whose experience is told below. It is assumed that her case was recorded at the county level after the latest statistics were provided to the paper. Other cases involved individuals who although they reside in Stoddard County, were diagnosed in either Scott or Cape County and therefore were not included in the report from Bloomfield.

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