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Since it was first recog-nized,six or seven years ago,as a dis-tinct disease in man,it has spreadsteadily across the continent untilonly about nine states in the extremenortheast are still uninvaded.In manit is not usually fatal but manages toput its victims out of working com-missior for a good three months.Fever nd swelling of the lymphnodes are outstanding characteristicsand convalescence is long and slow.Itis not communicable from person toperson but is spread by contact with  \nTo begin at the beginning of a longstory,that was pieced together bit bybit from happenings and researchcarried on in widely separated partsof the country over varying inter-vals of time,first knowledge aboutthe disease came from an epidemicamong the ground squirrels of Cali-fornia in 1910.Dr.G.W.McCoy,now director of the U.S.HygienicLaboratory,was on the ground andmanaged to isolate from one of thesquirrels,the causative organ","cbCaifyNAreHMBGj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifyNAreHMBGj","pdf",1638971,16,"English","# Laboratory Heroes Find New All-American Disease\n## Findings linking rabbit fever and bacterium tularense\n## Transmission, clinical characteristics, and spread\n## Research timeline: ground squirrels to market outbreaks","[{\"question\":\"What disease is the article describing and what is its alternate name?\",\"answer\":\"The article describes tularemia, which it notes is the same as what market men called “rabbit fever.”\"},{\"question\":\"How did Dr. Edward Francis investigate the disease?\",\"answer\":\"Francis used blood samples from sick cases and tested them in the Hygienic Laboratory to detect traces of bacterium tularense.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the disease spread and what symptoms are emphasized?\",\"answer\":\"It is transmitted by insect bites and contact, with fever and swollen lymph nodes highlighted; convalescence is described as long and slow.\"}]","Laboratory Heroes Find New All-American Disease | PDF",1790588440]