Show RABBIT FEVER FOUND GAME HUNTERS WARNED discovery ot of six alx cases ot of rabbit tover fever or tularemia tular emla in salt lake labere re bontly impelled jarthur Me ham i state fish and game commissioner er to warn hunters and housewives against handling wild rabbits five odthe 0 tha six cases were resorted reported by dr jo john n W augden sugden all ot of the victims have been given glyen blood tests teats to verify the diagnosis of tularemia tular emla and all ot of them have recently handled wild rabbits the disease long known as i rabbit fever was first discovered among the ground squirrels in tulare county california and later was identified among rabbits in millard and doi box elder counties it to Is contracted through the skin and usually makes its ita appearance app earence in the form of a small ulcer later the patient devel develops 0 Ps hills chills and fever becomes ex Y tir alrod ed and expert encee ence severe headaches its normal course is from ahr three 0 e to six months making it a serious disease froni from tho thi standpoint ot of the time lost by the patient the death rate a according ccorbin 9 to local physicians Is one out oi of biery every twenty five cases the malady was classified clinically by two U 8 department of 0 health physicians working in tulare county and near delta utah dot both h phy contracted the disease during their laboratory experiments rabbits are the commonest known carriers although any member ofilio rodent family can contract lt it in humans the disease la Is similar in effect to typhoid fever and aads la often diagnosed as typhoid although n not a rare the number of at known cases in ili salt lake Is considered unusual salt lake tribune |