SC - fetal???

[jeffrey stewart heilveil]

On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 Mordonna22 at aol.com wrote:
> Does anyone know if this is a parasite confined to this continent, or may this
> be a reason for a universal "season"?  Is it possible that the people of the
> era knew of the effects of eating small game killed at this time of the year?
> 
> Mordonna

Tularemia, a disease that is transmitted (along with Rocky mountain
Spotted fever) to rabbits, by the "Rabbit tick" (Haemaphysalis
leporispalustris), which is "Common on rabbits from Alaska to Argentina.
It ocassionally feeds on domestic animals, but rarely feeds on humans."
(_Foundations in Parasitology_, Roberts and Janovy. WCB publishers. 1996.)
The genus of tick has about 150 species workldwide, and only two in
N.America, but it doesn't say anything about the parasite being anywhere
else.  Most of the other ticks in this genus occur in Asia, Africa, and
the East Indies.

HTH
Bogdan

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