Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) is considered the most potentially severe form of the spotted fevers. The onset of symptoms typically occurs approximately two to 14 days (with an average of seven days) after having been bitten by a tick carrying the R. rickettsii bacterium.
Aaron Burr, in full Aaron Burr, Jr. (born February 6, 1756, Newark, New Jersey [U.S.]âdied September 14, 1836, Port Richmond, New York, U.S.) third vice president of the United States (1801â05), who killed his political rival, Alexander Hamilton, in a duel (1804), and whose turbulent political career ended with his arrest for treason in 1807.
Aaron Burr Jr. was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1756 as the second child of the Reverend Aaron Burr Sr., a Presbyterian minister and second president of the College of New Jersey in Newark (which moved to Princeton in 1756 and became Princeton University).