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Rabbit Fever or Tularemia ( Infectious Disease ):

What is tularemia?

Tularemia, or rabbit fever, a bacterial disease associated with animals and humans alike. Although wild animals and poultry can be many of those infected, and the rabbit is most often involved in outbreaks of disease. Tularemia are relatively rare in the state of Illinois; five or fewer cases are reported each year.

Tularemia's going on?

The disease occurs in all parts of the United States in all months of the year. Injury, however, is higher for adults in the winter during the early season hunting rabbits and for children during the summer when ticks and deer flies are abundant.

How is tularemia spread?

Many of the ways of human exposure to tularemia bacteria are known to exist. Common methods include inoculation of the skin or mucous membranes with blood or tissue while handling infected animals, the bite of infected ticks and communication with the fluid from infected deer flies or ticks, or handling or eating rabbit meat is not cooked enough. Less common method of spread and contaminated drinking water, inhalation of dust from contaminated soil or handling contaminated skin or paws of animals. Tularemia is not transmitted from person to person.

What are the symptoms of tularemia?

Symptoms vary, depending on the course of the application. In those cases where a person is to deal with the animal carcass, symptoms may include slow-growing ulcer at the site where the bacteria entered the skin (usually the hand) and swollen lymph nodes. If the bacteria are inhaled, a pneumonia-like disease that can be followed. Those who absorb these bacteria may report a sore throat, abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting.

How do not show symptoms in the near future?

Symptoms can appear between one and 14 days after exposure, but usually do so after three to five days.

What is the treatment for tularemia?

The drug of choice for the treatment of tularemia is streptomycin or gentamicin, although other antibiotics are also effective.

Years, with no infection, tularemia make a person immune?

Immunity over the long term and usually follows recovery from tularemia. However, it was reported injured again.

What can be done to prevent the spread of tularemia?

Several precautions can protect individuals from tularemia.

* Avoid drinking, bathing, swimming or working in untreated water where infection may be common among wild animals.
* Use impervious gloves when skinning or handling animals, especially rabbits.
* Cook meat of wild rabbits and rodents thoroughly.
* Avoid being bitten by deer flies and ticks. The following suggestions can help:
1. Check your clothing often for ticks climbing toward open skin. Wear white or light-colored long-sleeved shirts and long trousers even this small ticks are easy to see. Tuck long pants into your socks and shoes. Wear a headscarf or hat for extra protection.
2. For those who may not tolerate the wearing of these clothes in warm, muggy weather, and apply insect repellent that contains DEET (30 percent or less) to exposed skin (except face). Be sure to wash treated skin after coming indoors. If you do not cover, which contains the use of repellent permethrin to treat clothes (especially pants, socks and shoes), while in places where ticks may be common. Follow the instructions label; not misuse or overuse repellents. Always supervise children in the use of repellant.
3. Walking in the middle of the slopes of grass so as not to brush against you.
4. Check for yourself, children and other family members every two to three hours for ticks. And are rarely attached ticks most quickly and are rarely transferred tickborne disease until they were suspended for a period of four hours or more.
5. If you leave your pets outdoors, check them often for ticks. Insect infected with the disease can also be transported some tickborne diseases to them. (See your veterinarian about preventive measures against diseases tickborne.) You are in danger of tick-obstacle "ride" on the pet, but the decline in home before feeding.
6. Make sure that the property around your home is unattractive to ticks. Keep your grass cut and keep cut grass.

How should I remove the comment on that?

Remove any sign of urgency. Do not try to burn the tick or cover it up a match with petroleum jelly or nail polish. Do not use bare hands. The best way to remove the tick is to hold him with a fine-point tweezers as close as possible and the skin gently but firmly, pull it straight out. No trick or jerk the tick. If tweezers are not available, they tick with a piece of cloth or whatever can be used as a barrier between your fingers and ticks. You may want to tick in a jar of rubbing alcohol labeled with the date and place of the bite in case you seek medical attention and your physician wishes to have the tick identified.

And mouthparts of the tick are shaped like a small township and can remain an integral part of and lead to infection of the bite site if not removed correctly. Be sure to wash the bite area and your hands thoroughly with soap and water and apply antiseptic to the bite site.

Why are there concerns about tularemia as a biological weapons?

Tularemia, in the form of spray, and is considered a potential bioterrorist agent. Persons who breathe in infectious aerosol would likely experience severe respiratory diseases. Any suspected cases of inhalation tularemia immediately to the local administrations, and health status.