[milford421]

Then you too would agree that the release of this would be considered, shall we say, unusual?

Rabbit Fever a Potential Biothreat
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/09/21/rabbitfe.htm

[Texas Songwriter]

If the tularemia organism has been genetically altered to greater pathogenecity as in some reports I have read, it can be deadly. I practiced in East Texas, and I do not recall any colleague reporting a case of tularemia. Garden variety tularemia will make a person very, very sick.

Ulceroglandular Tularemia, the worst form of the disease, carries a 5% mortalitiy rate. That coupled with tularemia pneumonia raises the mortality rate to about 30%.