TujAZarem a o  ~t  _fromCc ote.--In the Public Hlealth Reports (vol. 45,
no. 9) 
of February 28, 1930, the case is detailed fully of a white laborer contracting
tularemia 
in Lincoln County, New Mexico. The patient had cut his left index finger
slightly with an 
ax, after which he disposed of the carcass of an adult coyote he had killed
and skinned the 
evening before. As he wore no gloves he undoubtedly contaminated the cut
at that time. The 
b od serum tested at the Hygienic Laboratory Confirmed the diagnosis of tularemia.
"It 
ore conclusively establishes the coyote as a definite source of infection
for this disease. 
Only one previous case of tularemia contracted from the coyote has been reported
in liter- 
ature. That case, occurring in Montana, resulted from the bite of a coyote
pup."     The 
foregoing is of sufficient interest to leaders to warrant sending additional
warnings to 
predatory-animal hunters to exercise the utmost care in skinning coyotes.

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