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unusual facts about Tick fever


Malahang Mission Station, Lae

In 1900 the Neuendettelsau Mission Society imported cattle from Australia to the mission stations at Malahang and Finchaven however Tick fever caused many losses.



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Joseph Everett Dutton

He died in the Congo Free State at the age of 29 from tick fever, or African relapsing fever, while investigating the disease, which is caused by a spirillum that was later named Borrelia duttoni.