TULAREMIA ACQUIRED FROM THE PHEASANT

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The predominant role of wild rabbits and hares as sources of human tularemia has focused attention so narrowly on these animals that the possibility of transmission from other sources may be overlooked. Wherever the cottontail rabbit is the chief source of infection, and whenever seasonal hunting laws, with their consequent "tularemia seasons," emphasize the epidemiologic importance of this animal, other less frequent sources of infection may not be considered. Although human tularemia in these regions has been traced to contacts with the ground squirrel, tree squirrel, woodchuck, cat, dog, hog, fox, coyote, muskrat, beaver, deer, mink, raccoon, bull snake, snapping turtle, opossum, skunk, sheep, ticks, quail, grouse, sage hen, pheasant, horned owl, chicken hawk, catfish and fish caught with infected rabbit meat as bait, correct diagnoses were often delayed owing to failures to suspect sources other than the rabbit. We record a second example of transmission from the pheasant. The

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