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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis that chiefly affects rodents but can also be transmitted to humans through the bite of various insects or contact with infected animals. In humans, the disease is characterized by intermittent fever and swelling of the lymph nodes.
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- noun pathology An
infectious disease caused by thebacterium Francisella tularensis.
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- noun a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals
Etymologies
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Examples
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Molecular biologist Siro Trevisanato from Ontario, Canada, suggests that this may be a reference to a disease called tularemia which infects sheep, donkeys, rabbits, and human beings, and that it is the first instance of biological warfare in recorded history.
Wired Top Stories 2008
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Plague, tularemia, which is also known as rabbit fever, and anthrax, they exist naturally.
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In 1968, 42 trappers and fur dealers from 11 to 82 years of age contacted tularemia (rabbit fever) from muskrats trapped in Addison County, Vermont?
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William C. Patrick III, 84, one of the chief scientists at the Army Biological Warfare Laboratories at Fort Detrick and who was responsible for overseeing the military's top-secret weaponization of some of the world's deadliest diseases, including anthrax and tularemia, died of bladder cancer Oct. 1 at Citizens Nursing Home in Frederick.
William C. Patrick III, 84, dies; oversaw Fort Detrick biowarfare effort and weaponization of anthrax and other deadly diseases T. Rees Shapiro 2010
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A second reason is that rabbits and hares may be infected with a bacillus Bacterium tularense that is similar to the plague bacillus and causes the disease tularemia in humans.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Despite his grim subject matter, Mr. Patrick was a happy bioweaponeer and liked to shock people he was consulting for by releasing a puff of weapons-grade dust in their presence — minus the anthrax or tularemia bacilli it was designed to carry.
Bioweapons Pioneer in the Cold War Era Stephen Miller 2010
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Under Mr. Patrick's direction, scientists at Fort Detrick developed a tularemia agent that, if disseminated by airplane, could cause casualties and sickness over thousands of square miles, according to tests carried out by the U.S. government.
William C. Patrick III, 84, dies; oversaw Fort Detrick biowarfare effort and weaponization of anthrax and other deadly diseases T. Rees Shapiro 2010
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Antibiotics: Recently HHS said it had awarded a small biotech firm $27 million to develop an antibiotic that could be used against bioterror threats, plague and tularemia, and also against antibiotic-resistant infections.
The $6 Billion Bio-Defense Opportunity Chandresh Harjivan 2010
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In the 1960s, Mr. Patrick led the highly classified weaponization of tularemia, a disease he considered superior to anthrax as a biological agent because of its potency.
William C. Patrick III, 84, dies; oversaw Fort Detrick biowarfare effort and weaponization of anthrax and other deadly diseases T. Rees Shapiro 2010
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Antibiotics: Recently HHS said it had awarded a small biotech firm $27 million to develop an antibiotic that could be used against bioterror threats, plague and tularemia, and also against antibiotic-resistant infections.
The $6 Billion Bio-Defense Opportunity Chandresh Harjivan 2010
slumry commented on the word tularemia
A college friend named a mobile made from a coathanger Tularemia. It sounded so nice...
July 12, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word tularemia
Usage on sarcocystosis.
September 17, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word tularemia
"Galloway was authorized by the military to work on a specific set of threatening diseases that were considered potential weapons in war or in terrorism, including anthrax, smallpox, tularemia, plague, and the Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fevers."
"Going Viral" by David E. Hoffman, in The New Yorker, January 31, 2011, p 26
February 3, 2011