How to Use tularemia in a Sentence
tularemia
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There’s also the relatively new babesiosis, and the rare tularemia and Powassan virus.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 May 2018
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The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports tularemia can be transmitted to dogs and cats that mouth or catch sick hares.
—USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
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Lone star ticks have also been found to carry bacteria that cause the diseases ehrlichiosis and tularemia.
—NBC News, 16 Mar. 2022
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Cases of tularemia range from mild to life-threatening, but most can be treated with antibiotics, according to the CDC.
—Lauren Krouse, Health.com, 18 May 2021
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If a pet is infected, people, too, can contract tularemia via their pet’s saliva or by handling infected hares.
—Fox News, 8 June 2019
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The dead hares could have possibly contracted an infectious disease known as tularemia.
—Fox News, 8 June 2019
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Based on his work on bio-threat tularemia, the team will try to engineer a vaccine with antibodies that would prevent the coronavirus’s signature spikes from entering cells.
—ExpressNews.com, 15 Oct. 2020
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The lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum, can transmit ehrlichiosis and tularemia.
—Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 6 June 2018
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Free-roaming cats can also spread other diseases that are contagious to humans, including plague, tularemia, rabies and typhoid fever.
—Alaska Dispatch News, 27 June 2017
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The bacterium that causes tularemia is present in some wildlife in northeast Illinois such as wild rabbits, muskrats and beavers, but wild animals generally do not exhibit signs of the disease, according to the county.
—Mike Nolan, Daily Southtown, 19 June 2018
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The American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis, can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia.
—Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 6 June 2018
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Cook County, Illinois, health officials are warning residents of a Chicago suburb to keep themselves and their pets away from wild rabbits after a dead one found there last week had the disease tularemia, also known as rabbit fever.
—Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 29 June 2018
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Apart from tick paralysis, the parasites can spread more than 15 other diseases to humans, including lyme disease, tularemia, and even a condition that appears to make people allergic to red meat.
—Scott Berson, miamiherald, 8 June 2018
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The man’s doctor ordered a series of test that came back positive for Francisella tularensis, leading to a glandular tularemia diagnosis.
—Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
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There are a number of ways humans can contract tularemia, a bacterial infection caused by Francisella tularensis.
—Karen Pallarito, Health.com, 25 June 2020
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Beyond that, tularemia infection can happen from breathing in matter such as dust that contains Francisella tularensis bacteria, like while gardening.
—Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 26 July 2019
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Ticks can also transmit microbes that cause Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia and human granulocytic anaplasmosis, among other diseases.
—Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Apr. 2022
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The Microbe institute, originally dedicated wholly to bubonic plague but later expanded to tackle other infections such as cholera, yellow fever, anthrax and tularemia, models the spread of the coronavirus.
—Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
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Cases of Lyme disease, Powassan virus; spotted fever rickettsiosis, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, babesiosis and tularemia all increased last year.
—Ashley Welch, CBS News, 14 Nov. 2018
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Other tick-borne diseases include anaplasmosis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, spotted fever rickettsiosis and tularemia.
—Rachel Trent, CNN, 12 July 2021
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North American opossums are known to carry leptospirosis, tuberculosis, coccidiosis, spotted fever and tularemia, according to Critter Control.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2022
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