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 ...

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 ...

While most people are wary of copperhead snakes and black widow spiders, there are other potentially dangerous creepy crawly ...

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.

A dead rabbit found in Central Illinois has tested positive for a bacterial disease, prompting the local health department to urge residents to monitor their families and pets for signs of the ...

These diseases are found in several states. A less common tick-borne bacterial disease called tularemia can be transmitted by ticks as well as other carriers such as the deer-fly. While uncommon ...

Rising tularemia cases demand action: CDC highlights diagnostic breakthroughs and calls for targeted efforts to protect vulnerable communities. In a recent study published in the journal Morbidity ...

Ticks are known to carry all types of diseases, most notably Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, and tularemia, also known as rabbit fever. While rarely fatal, tick bites can cause serious complications ...

Squirrels are not much different. Their feces can be extremely toxic, carrying diseases and pathogens like Salmonella, leptospirosis, and tularemia, among others. Such bacteria can lead to serious ...

Ticks can also transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Colorado tick fever, tularemia, and anaplasmosis, as well as other ailments, according to the CDC. There is also evidence that a bite from a ...