Disease name: Tularemia, also known as "rabbit fever" or "deer fly fever" Affected populations: This disease is rare in the U.S. Between 2011 and 2022, 2,462 cases of tularemia were reported in 47 ...

However, cases have been reported in 47 states. “The case fatality rate of tularemia is typically less than 2% but can be as high as 24%,” the research team led by CDC epidemiologist Kiersten Kugeler ...

Nearly 2,500 cases of tularemia were reported in the U.S. between 2011 and 2022. Cases of the disease — also called rabbit fever — were most common in children and older adults. Cases of ...

Symptoms can include skin ulcers, eye infections, sore throat, cough, difficulty breathing, and swollen lymph glands, depending how the bacteria passed into a person’s body. American Indian/Alaskan ...

According to CDC researchers, cases of tularemia in the U.S. increased by nearly 60% from 2011 to 2022 compared with the ...

The incidence of tularemia was highest among children aged 5 to 9 years and in men aged 65 to 84 years. Shannan N. Rich, Ph.D., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues describe tularemia cases in the ...

Cases of a potentially serious bacterial infection, tularemia have been spreading across the United States. Also known as “rabbit fever," tularemia has increased by 56 per cent during the 2010s ...

A rare but serious disease, tularemia — commonly known as rabbit fever — has been making headlines due to a sharp rise in reported cases in the United States of America in recent years. According to ...

Tularemia cases were reported by health departments in 47 states overall, but investigators with the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases say half of all reported cases ...

This disease can infect humans through various routes, such as insect bites, contaminated food or water, and inhalation. Tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis.