Show PAROWAN VALLEY RABBITS STRICKEN W WITH I 1 T H TULAREMIA it is reported that the rabbits in this valley have been stricken with tularemia or rabbit fever a scourge common to such animals and communicable to human beings if they come in contact with it the right way carlyle dalton and delbert local trappers report that many are dying with it in the heavily infested sections of the valley the state board of health reported during the week that five cases had developed in human beings last week two of these c cases a are in paragonah Para gonah and were caused by handling rabbits killed while out hunting the board urges all hunters and persons handling rodents to wear rubber gloves and wash their hands with strong soap and hot water after exposure to infection it is stated that a person need not have a cut or a skin abrasion to contract the disease since the germs can penetrate to the blood stream mosquitos bedbugs ticks and flies can carry the disease from the infected animals to human beings the mortality of the disease is not high in human beings but is in in anim animals als with the sickness affecting the glands and by high fever loss of appetite and weight lasting from three to four weeks nearly always leaving the patient in an extremely weakened condition that may continue for months parowan carowan Pa rowan utah times |