Colorado’s Lush Vegetation Fueling Increases In Rodent-Borne Diseases.

reports that an increase in Colorado’s rabbit population due to “unusually lush vegetation” has resulted in 15 people having contracted rabbit fever (tularemia) “so far this year.” That same lush vegetation also seems “to be fueling two other diseases carried by rodents – hantavirus and plague.” In 2015 alone, “Colorado has had five cases of hantavirus, four of them fatal,” as well as “one case of the plague” that killed its victim. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_RABBIT_FEVER_COLORADO?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-07-06-15-54-47