How to Use tularemia in a Sentence

tularemia

noun
  • Symptoms of tularemia can vary depending on the type of disease.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Bites can cause tularemia and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
    — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2026
  • Lone star ticks have also been found to carry bacteria that cause the diseases ehrlichiosis and tularemia.
    — NBC News, 16 Mar. 2022
  • An infectious disease fellow in Queens can encounter a farmer with tularemia.
    — Spencer Dorn, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • The dead hares could have possibly contracted an infectious disease known as tularemia.
    — Fox News, 8 June 2019
  • If a pet is infected, people, too, can contract tularemia via their pet’s saliva or by handling infected hares.
    — Fox News, 8 June 2019
  • There’s also the relatively new babesiosis, and the rare tularemia and Powassan virus.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 May 2018
  • In Alaska, snowshoe hares are considered the reservoir for tularemia, Smith said.
    — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2022
  • In Larimer County, there have been 7 human cases of tularemia since 2020.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • There are signs in the new study and others that climate change is causing Alaska polar bears to become increasingly at risk of tularemia.
    — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2022
  • That experiment failed, as did others involving anthrax and tularemia.
    — Larry Brilliant, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
  • In Larimer County, there have been seven human cases of tularemia since 2020.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • The lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum, can transmit ehrlichiosis and tularemia.
    — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 6 June 2018
  • The letter notes some recognizable threats, such as anthrax, tularemia, Ebola, plague, and botulism.
    — Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Free-roaming cats can also spread other diseases that are contagious to humans, including plague, tularemia, rabies and typhoid fever.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 27 June 2017
  • The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports tularemia can be transmitted to dogs and cats that mouth or catch sick hares.
    — USA TODAY, 10 June 2019
  • The person was also diagnosed with pneumonic tularemia, a rare respiratory form of the disease.
    — Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Cases of tularemia range from mild to life-threatening, but most can be treated with antibiotics, according to the CDC.
    — Lauren Krouse, Health.com, 18 May 2021
  • Based on his work on bio-threat tularemia, the team will try to engineer a vaccine with antibodies that would prevent the coronavirus’s signature spikes from entering cells.
    — ExpressNews.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Ticks, for instance, can transmit infections that cause Lyme disease, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis and tularemia.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Though most infections can be treated with antibiotics, the CDC reports tularemia can be life-threatening.
    — Emma Wozniak, The Enquirer, 31 July 2025
  • Lone star ticks, abundant in the South, transmit infections like tularemia, ehrlichiosis, and a Lyme-like illness not yet identified.
    — Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2011
  • There are a number of ways humans can contract tularemia, a bacterial infection caused by Francisella tularensis.
    — Karen Pallarito, Health.com, 25 June 2020
  • When diagnosed early, tularemia can be effectively treated with antibiotics.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • Minnesota health officials are warning about an increase in metro-area cases of tularemia, a potentially serious disease spread by insect bites that affects humans and their pets.
    — Staff Report, Twin Cities, 25 July 2025
  • The man’s doctor ordered a series of test that came back positive for Francisella tularensis, leading to a glandular tularemia diagnosis.
    — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
  • Beyond that, tularemia infection can happen from breathing in matter such as dust that contains Francisella tularensis bacteria, like while gardening.
    — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 26 July 2019
  • The American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis, can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia.
    — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 6 June 2018
  • Apart from tick paralysis, the parasites can spread more than 15 other diseases to humans, including lyme disease, tularemia, and even a condition that appears to make people allergic to red meat.
    — Scott Berson, miamiherald, 8 June 2018
  • The bacterium that causes tularemia is present in some wildlife in northeast Illinois such as wild rabbits, muskrats and beavers, but wild animals generally do not exhibit signs of the disease, according to the county.
    — Mike Nolan, Daily Southtown, 19 June 2018

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