Tularemia

Summer is upon us, and the Wyoming Department of Health is urging residents to take steps to avoid mosquito and tick bites.

Summer is upon us, and the Wyoming Department of Health is urging residents to take steps to avoid mosquito and tick bites as well as waterborne diseases.

Health officials are warning residents to keep an eye on their pets and other wildlife after several people around the state have been diagnosed with tularemia, better known as rabbit fever. "We've had eight confirmed cases of tularemia and that's among humans," said Wyoming Department of Health spokeswoman Kim Deti...

Tularemia has been diagnosed in two cottontail rabbits a few miles northeast of Guernsey. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department says a landowner along Whelen Canyon Road discovered about 20 dead rabbits. Two of the rabbits were sent to the Game and Fish's Wildlife Diseases Laboratory and both tested positive for tularemia. ...

Following a possible Tularemia diagnoses in a local dog, Natrona County health officials are encouraging folks to take precautions. "What we wanted to do here at the health department was to take this opportunity to remind folks that Tularemia is here...