CDC Studying Puzzling Rise In Rabbit Fever In Western US.

reports that on Thursday state epidemiologist officials said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is studying the puzzling rise in cases of tularemia, or rabbit fever, a rare bacterial disease that has killed a Wyoming man and sickened many in Colorado, South Dakota and Nebraska this year. Reuters explains that tularemia rarely affects more than a few people each year, compared to this year’s 74 confirmed cases in Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/10/us-usa-rabbit-fever-idUSKCN0RA2VA20150910