Show TULAREMIA MIA tho the mild outbreak ot of tularemia in salt lake county males makes it timely to inform the sportsmen of the state tate in regard to tho the nature of 0 the disease and about that other disease spotted fever which lg Is kept alive through rab bitis and other animals in some parts of oe tho the country utah has hae corn com fever but at times jack rabbits and deer flies files have spread more than a little tularemia tular emla getting to tularemia Tular emla the first thing to remember Is that a person handling especially d ng an infected rabbit Is apt to get the disease unless he uses utmost precaution the spleen and liver seem to be ba tho the centers of 0 infection and should not bo be touched it if it can be avoided persons with sores bores or cuts on the hands should never dress wild jack rabbits for the disease la Is apt to be present and unnoticed the infection orthe orthe or the germ seems to have the ability to pierce the healthy skin so persons cleaning rabbits should use rubber when possible the second thing to remember Is to always kill a lazy rabbit and burn or bury the carcas lazy rabbits almost always aro are side sick rabbits rabbit 9 thorough cooking medical medica imen men say destroyed dos des troyes the tularemia germs and makes the rabbit meat safe to eat tularemia was first discovered in humans by dr T 13 beatty health commissioner who described i it as deer fly fever having noticed that the symptoms sym showed up soon after the patient had bad been bitten by a deer fly dr francis of the united states public health service carried on a long line of 0 experiments in all lard county tho the seat of the epidemic a dozen years ago and learned learne d that the germ of deer fly fever was the same as that isolated some years previously in tulare county california in a ground squirrel plague the investigators gators at first scouted dr beattys suggestion that the jack rabbit was the carrier in utah but when utah ground squirrels were found free of the disease the jack rabbit was investigated vesti gated and found to be the carrier the disease is seldom fatal but usually means a long wasting illness the chief kympton is extreme tiredness which grows into extreme weakness have your rabbit r you want it but handle them with the baro bare hands as little as possible now to rocky mountain spotted fever the first thing to remember about this Is that it is dangerous but that the queaa where here the fatality rate is three i out of tour four Is relatively small idaho montana and wyoming have such areas spotted fever has been found in an almost all of montana wyoming idaho in many parts of utah and in halt half of colorado nevada washington and oregon it la Is also reported in california the next thing to remember is that with a little extra card care when in the mountains no one need be bitten by wood ticks it takes the tick several hours as aa a rule to decide just where ho he wants to burrow into a man when iu in tick territory inspect the cloties cloths and body three tames a day when a tick is found attached to the body tho the best way according to the health department la Is to put a little iodine or turpentine at the point of entrance and then carefully help the tick to back out the head of the tick Is the only part which enters the skin and this Is usually broken oft off unless care is used it Is also recommended that a sharp instrument ment be pushed into the skin just juat under the jaws of the tick and the tick pried out guard against getting infection from some other source while petting getting the tick out 10 I 1 the third thing to remember Is that th at wood ticks are not poisonous and that practically the only way man can contract the disease is through the bite of A an infected tick although laboratory workers have got it without a tick bit bite the fourth thing to remember Is that a tick cannot acquire virulence until it has haa engorged on the blood of f a larger animal domestic stock pa play their part in III feeding ticks and m making the tick dangerous to man the fifth thing to remember is that the rabbit and other rodents act aa hosts that is the young ticks attach themselves to the rabbits but it is doubtful it if man ever gets tile the dh disease sease from rabbits or from the ak ticks when jt Is at tho the point where it lives on cn rabbits the life cycle of the tide tick Is two beirs years when a female engorges and becomes fertilized it lays to eggs thes eggs hatch and the I 1 larvae ar fasten themselves to the rodents such suc h as rabbits squirrels et cetera the larvae undergo another change what Is T these iese also teed feed on tbt th rabbits and become older and larger when they again change and beckma ticks after ma many y months of domancy demancy ilia ack becomes active a 4 1 alter after a stay upon tho the arger la Is roady ready to deal his kossoi into man inan the spotted fever danger ta from |