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• n  a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals

• Academically, rabbit fever is termed tularemia, after Tulare County, Calif.
• With the hunting season beginning, doctors are trying to warn rabbit catchers against tularemia, rabbit fever.
• In dozens of varieties they infect man with diseases that are often fatal: Kenya typhus, South African tick-bite fever, Bullis fever, Russian encephalitis, the Q fevers, tularemia .

• tularaemia
• rabbit fever
• deer fly fever
• yatobyo

News & Articles

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• U.S. Bioterror Detection Program Comes Under Scrutiny
  A cutting-edge biological terror alert system detected a potential threat in the air one morning back in 2008, threatening to derail then-Sen. Barack Obama’s acceptance speech in Denver for his party’s presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention. Initial results from a pricey national air sampling system suggested that bacteria that could cause tularemia had been detected. The ...
  June 17, 2013 - Scientific American