I feel that it has been.Is this risk blown way out of proportion
Not as common as you might think but always a possibility.is it as common as they make it sound?
Don't be so sure.You won't get it by skinning a rabbit.
We always wait for the second frost before we hunt them.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/230923-overviewFrequency
United States
A few hundred cases of tularemia are reported annually. Many cases are probably undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, or unreported. Tularemia has been reported in all states except Hawaii. Most reported cases occur in Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Utah, and Missouri.
In the past, tularemia infections reportedly occurred more frequently during the cold-weather months (eg, rabbit-associated disease); however, recently, tularemia has been reported more frequently during warm-weather months (eg, tick-associated disease).
It mimics the black plague in how it infects you. What fun...open pustulating, oozing sores.
Tularemia is a BACTERIA, not a worm. You can contract it simply by touching, and most especially skinning a rabbit.
Well, as the "Progressives" would say; I'll have to recalibrate my words.Don't be so sure.
What's sad, is the plague is now endemic here in Utah...
Plague was global except for Australia by 1910 and came to the US around 1900 to the west coast. It has probably been in Utah since long before you were born.
with visible symptoms.
we were always told never eat rabbit till after the firts frost.
To those shooting them with an '06, it is leagal, but no more ethical than purposly leaving a deer carcass rot. Eatin' critters is food, and you don't waste food. Gophers are for red mist!