Tularemia is a bacterial infection caused by Francisella tularensis. As the name rabbit fever suggests, tularemia is most common in rabbits. However, it can also affect other species, including ...

No tularemia vaccine is currently available to protect the ... began researching Francisella tularensis in 2001 to better understand how these bacteria cause disease. Klose, who also studies Vibrio ...

According to the release, people can contract tularemia through bites from infected insects, most commonly ticks and deer flies, or contact with infected animal tissues. The bacteria can also be ...

Dennis, MD, MPH, Chief, Bacterial Zoonoses Branch, CDC. Despite the increased risk of a bioweapons threat felt after September 11, further vaccine development for tularemia remains slow.

When he arrived at the plant, Alibek went to inspect a room suspected of being contaminated by a leak from Zone 3, the interior area reserved for culture of tularemia bacteria. Entering alone and ...