tularemia

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Pet prairie dogs have caused outbreaks of tularemia, a flulike illness that can be fatal if not treated with antibiotics.

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  1. noun An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis that chiefly affects rodents but can also be transmitted to humans through the bite of various insects or contact with infected animals. In humans, the disease is characterized by intermittent fever and swelling of the lymph nodes. Also called rabbit fever.

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  • Finding cures for cancer, sleeping sickness, treatments for chagres fever, dengue disease, tularemia, and things like that. —  105 - The Invisible-Box Murders
  • Parks had great skill THE sun came up with a shower of gold on the hills of Westchester and was cast back in jeweled reflections from the windows of the Rensance home Doc sat in the library and wrote with a pen When you opened this message, you released enough germs--tularemia, dengue fever, sleeping sickness--to kill you and everyone you come in contact with. —  105 - The Invisible-Box Murders
  • Start calling chemists and pharmaceutical concerns dealing in remedies for tularemia, dengue fever, and sleeping sickness Long Tom nodded. —  105 - The Invisible-Box Murders
  • People can get tularemia from many different sources including through the bite of an infected insect (usually a tick or deerfly), handling infected animal carcasses, consuming contaminated food or water, or by inhalation of the bacteria. —  The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories
  • They are also capable of transmitting tularemia, Colorado tick fever, and anaplasmosis, and may cause paralysis when a neurotoxin they produce is secreted into a host's blood stream.
 

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  1. New Latin, after Tulare, a county of south-central California.
 

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