A 19-year-old man went deer hunting. While on the trail, he found a
partly dismembered rabbit. The hunter picked up the front paws for
good luck charms and gave them to another hunter in the party. The
rabbit had been handled with bare hands that were bruised and
scratched from the hunter's work as an automobile mechanic. Festering
sores on his hands, legs and knees were noted 2 days later. What
infectious disease do you suspect the hunter has? How would you
proceed to prove it?
LIST OF DISEASE CAUSED BY RABBIT:- quoted...
Tularemia - Blood cultures
Monkeypox - Blood cultures
Bubonic plague - Blood tests
Sarcoptes scabiei - Test of the lesions
Cheyletiella - Test of the lesions
Dermatophytosis - Test of the lesions
Pasteurellosis - Test of the lesions
These are the diseases that can be spread from rabbits to man and
cause lesions.
Tularemia is the most commonof all rabbit to human diseases. I would
recommend a doctors visit for antibiotics and a complete bandaging of
the lesions.
