Notes on the Rabbit Tick, Haemaphysalis leporis-palustris (Packard), and Tularemia in Central Alaska

Abstract
Confirmation is provided of the occurrence of the etiologic agents of tularemia and a low-grade form of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the rabbit tick, Haemaphysalis leporis-palustris, taken off snowshoe hares in Alaska. The incidence of diagnosed human tularemia is increasing, 8 cases having been reported from central Alaska since 1946.

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