Don’t panic, but exercise caution. In the Doubs, in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, the corpses of hares have been found in recent months. They were suffering from tularemia, a disease transmissible to humans, as revealed Eastern Republican.
Tularemia is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium, Francisella. It is a zoonosis, it is transmitted from animals to humans. The hare is, along with the tick, the first vector. The most common contamination is through the skin, with the bacteria passing through the skin, but it can also be through the respiratory tract.
The opportunity to recall good practices
“There is no psychosis to be had, on the other hand, one can recall the good practices: to pay attention to the dead or sick animals in the forest, which do not adopt an escape behavior, and to dress accordingly. protect against ticks, “recalls Marc Hessemann, co-director of the departmental veterinary laboratory, interviewed by the daily.
He specifies that this disease is observed in the Doubs “on a cyclical basis, every five or eight years”. Symptoms of tularemia are similar to those of the flu with lymph nodes and suppurative sores. The consequences are more or less serious depending on the case. Although the bacteria are very contagious, the European strain is very rarely fatal unlike the North American.
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