Top Ten Most Important Things You Need To Know About Tularaemia

Here are the top 10 things about Tularaemia:

1.    Tularaemia is caused by the bacterium “Francisella tularensis.”

2.      It is typically caught from rabbits.

3.      Tularaemia is most common among North American rabbit hunters, villagers that live in central Sweden, and southern Russian farmers.

4.      The incubation period can be anywhere from one day to three weeks.

5.      Usually, symptoms appear two to five days after the infection.

6.      Symptoms usually include: sore throat, high fever, chills, muscle aches, dry cough, weakness, rash, swelling of the lymph nodes, open sores on the skin, and headaches.

7.      These symptoms hang on longer than the usual flu.

8.      Tularaemia can be treated with antibiotics and the patient usually recovers after a few weeks.

9.      The disease is no longer as prominent as it once was, less than fifty people worldwide die from it each year.

10. Most of the people who now get it are ones who are constantly exposed to this organism.

The CDC suggests that you avoid getting tick bites, wear gloves when you are exposed to dead or wild animals, cook wild animal meats thoroughly before eating them, and constant hand washing.