History of tularemia, known for years as rabbit and deer fly fever, was traced by Dr. George W. McCoy of the public health department of LSU School of Medicine at a meeting of the school's Faculty club last night. Dr. McCoy, among the first men to identify a plague-like disease found in rodents as tularemia, traced the disease's history from 4000 B. C, when Moses warned against using hares for food, to final classification of the marketman's rabbit fever.
In a discussion that followed, Dr. Emma Moss reported on diagnosis of the disease and said that there have been six deaths from it in Orleans during the last year. Dr. J. O. Weilbaecher, Jr., discussed treatment of the disease at Charity hospital.
