Number of people with ‘rabbit fever’ rises by 56% in US: “This pathogen can be abused as a biological weapon”

The number of people with the infectious disease tularemia, also called rabbit fever, increased by 56 percent in the last 10 years, according to a report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “And there also seems to be an increase in Belgium,” Sciensano reports. How exactly do you get that disease? What are the symptoms? And why could the disease serve as a biological weapon?

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