Rabbit fever tularensis

Tularemia, or rabbit fever, is severely debilitating, but has a very low fatahty rate. It is cause by the FranciseUa tularensis bacterium. 

Tularemia (francisella tularensis), also known as rabbit fever, deerfly fever, and Ohara s disease, like the plague, is a bacterial infection that can occur naturally from the bite of insects, usually ticks and deerflies. The disease can also be acquired from contact with infected rabbits, muskrats, and squirrels, ingestion of contaminated food, or inhalation of contaminated dust. Once contracted, it is not directly spread from human to human. Tularemia remains infectious in the blood for about 2 weeks and in lesions for a month. It remains ineffective in deerflies for 14 days and ticks throughout their lifetime (about 2 years). The disease can occur at anytime of the year, but is most common in the early winter during rabbit hunting season and in the summer when tick and deerfly activity is at its peak. Tularemia contracted naturally has a death rate of approximately 5%. 

By 1954, the Pine Bluff laboratory produced Brucella suis (the causative agent of brucellosis, also called undulant fever) and Francisella tularensis (tularemia, or rabbit fever). Hardware for antipersonnel biological cluster bombs was delivered to Pine Bluff for filling with Brucella suis to support air force requirements. By 1955, the accelerated program was producing stocks of B suis and F tularensis as bio-... 

Tularemia (rabbit fever or deer fly fever) is a disease caused by Francisella tularensis, a gram-negative coccobaciUus that does not form spores. It is normally a disease of animals, and the disease is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected biting... 

As the verse indicates, a danger from skinning tularemia-infected rabbits (and other rodents) has long been recognized by hunters and people in the fur trade. Tularemia (also called rabbit fever ) is caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. Both the United States and the Soviet Union weaponized tularemia, finding it to be an incapacitating BW agent. 

Tularemia A (Francisella tularensis) Animals/ insects— deerflies, mosquitoes, rabbits 2-1 0 days No Standard Local ulcers, regional swollen lymph nodes, fever, chills, HA, substernal discomfort, and cough Fatal typically 2 weeks Streptomycin, gentamicin... 

Tularemia is a disease caused by the bacteria Francisella tularensis. It can strike both humans and animals. Rabbits, ticks, deer-flies and many aquatic animals can transmit this disease. There are two forms of this disease ulcerograndular and typhoidal. Ulcerograndular form of this disease is more common. The initial symptom usually is a sore on the skin up to an inch across. If the disease transmits from insect bites, the sore may appear on the leg or lower part of the body, and if transmitted from an animal it may usually appear on the arm or upper part of the body. Other symptoms are enlarged lymph nodes. Ulcerogranular form of tularemia may develop after 3 to 6 days of exposure into fever, chills, cough, headache and ache in the muscles. The disease may... 

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