This is Just "by way of warning, to "Be cat'efiili In maAy ]iarts of 

 this country there is now a great ^^P^X cji^ in^eirest in setting v^ild raboits 

 free to restock hunting areas. In tiiS ;^asti mkhj suck animals have heen 

 olDtained from States where tularemia is how Itnovm to have hcen prevalent-. 



Again that is a warning, Yfhen such importations appear desirahle, 

 be very careful to keep an effective quarentine to prevent starting an 

 outhreak of t.ularemia. According to what we knov/ now-, wild raohits should 

 he placed in Quarantine for ten days hefore they are turned loose in the 

 wild. Infected animals v/ill sho\7 synptoms of the disease and will hardly 

 live more thaft five or six days. 



The Biological Siirvey issues a statement summarizing the available 

 information on the subject' of tularemia. Ask for leaflet 3i_S03 on 

 Tularemia, an Animal-Bo me Disease, 



AMOITi'TCMvISITT ; You can get that leaflet Bi-S03 by writing direct to the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of biological Survey, Ask 

 for "Tularem.ia, An Anhnal-Borne Disease" The number is Bi-90o, 



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