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Rabbit Fever
Reported
Game Commission Supervising Game Biologist Jack V. Gwynn has called attention to the dangers of tularemia. Gwynn said that Game Warden Stuart Doggett reported two recent cases of hunters contracting the disease.
According to the State Health Department’s Bureau of Epidemiology, three cases of the disease have been reported through November 7, 1981. One case was reported in 1980. However, in 1970, 16 cases were reported in Virginia and 13 of these were directly associated with dressing rabbits. The human mortality rate from the disease in the United States is extremely low.
Tularemia is an infectious plague-like disease distributed throughout the world. This disease has been reported in man and more than 80 other species of mammals, most of which are rodents and lagomorphs (rabbits).
In wildlife of the United States, the disease occurs in aquatic fur animals but mainly in cottontail rabbits, hence its common name “rabbit fever.” The disease is so well entrenched in native wildlife that there is no possibility of eradication.
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—Harry Truman
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