Rabbit Fever: Tularemia Safeguards When Cooking Rabbit

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Primary hosts for these nasty little buggers are rodents and lagomorphs, but rabbit fever can be transmitted to humans through physical contact . . . as in preparing an infected animal for the stewpot.

The disease tularemia, commonly known as rabbit fever, can cause sickness in humans if the rabbit is not handled correctly. Learn about the symptoms of the disease, and necessary tularemia safeguards to take when hunting, butchering and cooking rabbit.

Rabbit Fever: Tularemia Safeguards When Cooking Rabbit

Tularemia–commonly known as rabbit fever–is an infectious
disease caused by a parasitic bacterium with the lilting

  • Published on Jul 26, 2012
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