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.
Burr 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 in 1756 to Princeton and later became Princeton University).