Great! Now I'm afraid to even go outside. So can you explain to us how we can avoid this disease?

So is it a virus or a bacteria?

Tularemia has been around forever. It reduces the rabbit population from masses to few every so often. When I was in 7 to 12th grade (57 t0 63)one of our school bus drivers had many years before (1940's)and he was in great health.
I western Box Elder county in 1962 the Jack Rabbits were so thich at night you could turn the truck lights on a hay field at night and it was whitewith rabbits. 3 guys would unlaod their guns into the herd, pick up the rabbits and put them into the truck bed, turn off the lights and reload the 22's and turn on the lights and the feild was white again. They filled the pickup up nearly every night and feed their pigs all summer and it seemed the rabbits would not stop comming then Tularemia got in the rabbits that winter and next the next year you had a hard time finding a rabbit. Guys who shot all them never got sick and are still ranching.

I long for the days when the rabbit population was that thick. Shooting them with a pistol is great practice for shooting your self-defense pistol on an adrenaline rush. I suspect the number of rabbit hunters has helped to keep rabbit populations under control lately, but no one in the federal govt. has ever written to thank us for reducing the probability of rabbits passing tularemia on to humans. Just think, if more people hunted rabbits and other varmints, we wouildn't have to use taxpayer money to pay govt. hunters to shoot 'em. Since the govt. won't say it, I will. Thanks, Hunters, for reducing varmint populations and helping keep us humans safe from loathsome diseases!

Some folks cut off ears and/or feet of Jack rabbits to keep a tally when hunting. It may be better to just take a pencil and a 3x5 card to keep track.

What modern disease does not display flu-like symptoms?

How in the world can anyone know if you have this or the flu from "flu-like" symptoms?

I'm not aware of any government program to hunt rabbits. Since jackrabbits are considered varmits in Utah, anyone can hunt them at any time.

Part of the reason we don't seem to have as many rabbits as 50 years ago is because the populations of hawks and eagles, their main predators, have rebounded since the '50s and '60s.

Is it a virus or bact. please go back and read the very first sentance of this article.