Tularemia — United States
In an ideal context, “rabbit fever” would refer to unbridled enthusiasm for hunting hares. But the term usually refers to a serious illness passed to people and pets by hares and rabbits. Earlier this summer [2015], a North Pole man was sickened with tularemia after skinning an infected hare. This does not mark an outbreak in Alaska, but some states in the Lower 48 are seeing multiple cases this year [2015].
This is the 1st human case in Alaska since 2009, although there have been cases of
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