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 .
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