Tularemia: Association with hunting and farming

Kr~~~rls: Tularemia: Social customs; Oropharyngeal tularemia: Tularemia pneumonia increased from < 1% in the 1940’s to about 15% of the total number of cases today among the Japanese [ 1,2]. In North America the incidence of this form of the disease is stable at about 1% of the total number of cases and is strictly a paediatric disease ]3,4]. In Northern Europe and Asia it varies around 5% to 10% of reported cases and is male oriented [5&l.