Study tracks Arctic animals’ exposure to disease better known in Interior Alaska: tularemia

The disease is more commonly associated with rabbits and hares.

By Yereth Rosen, Alaska Beacon November 23, 2022
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A wide variety of Arctic animals including polar bears are being exposed to a tick-borne pathogen normally associated with rabbits and hares, a newly published study said. The findings are intended to help scientists track what is expected to be a northward spread of the disease into the warming Arctic.

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