SC - butchering rabbits

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/28/99 1:11:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
helen at directlink.net writes:

<< my dad clean all his small game, but
 he never let me touch rabbits as he felt they carried some illness I could 
get
 if I got cut or scratched while cleaning them.  So, is that true and if so, 
what
 was it? >>

TULAREMIA. This disease is carried by wild rabbits for the most part and 
there is little chance of contracting it from domestic rabbits UNLESS they 
have been allowed to come in contact with wild populations.

Courtesy of Meriam-Webster:

tu*la*re*mia (noun)

[New Latin, from Tulare County, Calif.]

First appeared 1921

 : an infectious disease esp. of wild rabbits, rodents, humans, and some 
domestic animals that is caused by a bacterium (Francisella tularensis), is 
transmitted esp. by the bites of insects, and in humans is marked by symptoms 
(as fever) of toxemia

 -- tu*la*re*mic (adjective)

Ras
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