Epidemiology of Tularemia in Massachusetts with a Review of the Literature

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ALTHOUGH tularemia is considered a "truly American disease," Ohara1 refers briefly to a historical account of a disease that he thinks was tularemia, described in 1837 by a Japanese physician, K. K. Homma.2 Ohara states that Homma, under the heading of intoxication of rabbit meat, described in detail the incubation period and symptoms of a disease that, according to Homma, had not theretofore been described. After tularemia became known in America, physicians in the West claimed to have seen similar cases as early as 1907 in Arizona and 1909 in Missouri.In 1911 McCoy3 contributed the first information of the . . .