Notes On The Rabbit Tick Haemaphysalis Leporis-Palustris, And Tularaemia In Central Alaska

The problem of tularemia is becoming more serious with increasing settlement and widening exposure. Since there are no ticks in Central Alaska that attack man, the chief source of human infection will continue to be the handling of snowshoe hares or other infected animals. Biting flies could be of incidental importance in the local presence of a hare epizootic, though tularemia is still not a known primary cause for widespread decimation of hares and rabbits.