With the rabbit it was probably still from fleas on the animal. Contact with rabbit blood from a rabbit infected with tularemia can be a big problem. Tularemia can cause blisters and boils along with a pneumonic form and issues with the lymph nodes which are somewhat similar to the diagnostic points for plague.
“With the rabbit it was probably still from fleas on the animal.”
That sounds right. Darn vermin. Or to go full-bore western, dern varmints.
“Tularemia can cause blisters and boils along with a pneumonic form and issues with the lymph nodes which are somewhat similar to the diagnostic points for plague.”
Great googly-moogly!