[Tijeras_Slim]

Or hungry people eating more diseased rabbits?

[xcamel]

Tularemia

[Paleo Conservative]

If they're experimenting with Tularemia, it wouldn't surprise me if they were also working with smallpox.

[Billthedrill]

96 seems like a lot to me, although this is the season for maximum exposure to rabbits. If it's respiratory, then it's more likely it's weaponized; if it's subcutaneous, then probably it's the usual route of handling infected beasties. The stuff is incredibly contagious - threshold dose is 10-50 cells.

[razorback-bert]

pinging the expert.

[little jeremiah]

One for the TM.

I ping you four because I can remember how to spell your screen names!

[MD_Willington_1976]

what's the weather been like in that region, and has the predatation dropped...

[tallhappy]

Definitely a pathogen of concern in bioweapons.

Great post, what Free Republic is about.

[Thud]

Abilek said the Soviets used tularemia on the Germans in World War Two, but that it backfired on the Soviets and hit them too. His deducing this from old records while a medical student purportedly led to the offer to join the Soviet biological weapons program, which he accepted.

[datura]

The western edge of the H5N1 migration is in the same area as well. Map below:

[Calpernia]

ping

[Jackknife]

Bush's fault.