Indiana Wildlife Disease News 1-2006

There is evidence that tularemia in man may have occurred in the nineteenth century in the U.S., Norway, Russia and Japan before the isolation of causative organisms from California ground squirrels in 1911. Since its identification, tularemia has been reported from all of the continental U.S. (except Vermont), Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia. The disease has also been reported from Japan, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Scandinavia, central and western Disease in Focus