Francisella tularensis is lethal in 30 percent of untreated cases

I don’t recall ever hearing the name tularemia growing up, but I’m pretty sure I was vaguely aware of something called rabbit fever — if only because I’d seen the warning against rabbititis in Hare Tonic: “And then suddenly everything’d go black!” Tularemia is a debilitating illness, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), rife among wild [ ]