Tularemia pneumonia in Washington, DC. A report of three cases with possible common-source exposures.
In June 1978, three cases of tularemia pneumonia occurred in persons residing in the Washington, DC, area. The patients, all men, became ill three to four days after a brief session training their hunting dogs in an undeveloped wooded area adjacent to a housing complex. One of the dogs, which later died, had captured a wild rabbit during the training session. All three men had handled the rabbit while familiarizing their dogs with the rabbit's scent. The men had no other common exposure that was a likely source of infection.
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004219:District of Columbia; D004285:Dogs; D005604:Francisella tularensis / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000635:transmission; D014406:Tularemia / Q000635:transmission*
D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial