Abstract
Brown et al. (1) reported that 105 of 120 cases of tularemia in Kansas from 1928 to 1933 were from skinning or handling wild ribbits, but of the 105 cases reported, only seven were from contact with jack rabbits. Francis (2) also lists the jack rabbit as a possible source of tularemia in man. There are several reports of the isolation of P. tularensis from the tissues of infected jack rabbits (3-8) and from ticks taken from jack rabbits (4-9). On the other hand, several investigators failed to isolate the organism from jack rabbits (9, 10) or to demonstrate any agglutinins against P. tularensis in the serum of the jack rabbits tested (8-11). Bacon and Drake (7), testing 558 jack rabbit sera, found only two positive for P. tularensis agglutinins.
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