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TULAREMIA As hunting season moves into full swing in Virginia,JJtate Health Commissioner Mack I. Shanholtz called the attention of hunters to tularemia, a disease often transmitted to man by wild life. Already this year 27 csaes of tularemia have been reported to the State Health Department, he said. ---- "Tularemia, an infectious disease I primarily of rabbits and rabbit-like I animals, is transmitted from animal | to animal by ticks, flies, fleas, *and I lice. Man is usually infected by con| tact with infected animals and in|T sects,” Dr. Shanholtz said. He added I that while tularemia is not usually | fatal, it can be very painful with I fever, chills, and sores at the site of I infection. According to Dr. Shanholtz, the | control of tularemia is dependent
1 upon * th^e precautions which each | person must take for his own safety.
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