The Chautauqua County Health Department (CCHD) has confirmed two beavers in the Sherman area have tested positive for tularemia, a rare bacterial disease. The last documented case in the region was in ...

The Chautauqua County Health Department has confirmed two beavers in the Sherman area tested positive for tularemia. Cases of tularemia in animals are rarely detected in WNY; the last confirmed case ...

Learn more about this infection and how to protect yourself. Tularemia is also called rabbit fever or deer fly fever. The infection is caused by a bacteria called Francisella tularensis.

Cases of tularemia increased by 56% during the 2010s compared to the previous decade, researchers report in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Half of all the nearly 2,500 reported ...

Tularemia killed several squirrels in Champaign, and a rabbit in Douglas County. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. It’s most commonly spread through contact with infected animals ...

The rabbit infected with tularemia was found in Tuscola, a small community south of Champaign, following weeks of reports of ill and dead squirrels in nearby Urbana. One of the rodents had also ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) — A rabbit found dead in Tuscola was confirmed to have died from tularemia, officials in Douglas County said. Now, the Douglas County Health Department is encouraging ...

TUSCOLA, Ill. (WAND) - The Douglas County Health Department is advising residents to watch for symptoms of tularemia after a dead rabbit infected with the disease was discovered in Tuscola.

Rabbits have been breeding like, well, rabbits in Larimer County. And while the floppy-eared critters can be carriers of potentially fatal tularemia, the county health department has two words for ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) — Tularemia, a rare disease also known as Rabbit Fever, has been found in a squirrel in Urbana. The disease is commonly found in rodents, rabbits, and hares, but can also ...

Those who hunt or interact routinely with rabbits should see a doctor if they develop any concerning symptoms, he advised. “Many factors might contribute to the higher risk for tularemia in this ...