Tularemia (also called "Goblin Fever", "deer-fly fever", "Ohara fever" and "Francis disease") is a disease. Usually rodents get it. It is caused by a bacterium, Francisella tularensis. There have been cases where the disease spread to humans. The disease can be treated with antibiotics.
Treatment for Tularemia
The average incubation period following infection with F. tularensis is 3 to 5 days (range 1 to 21 days). Tularemia usually has an abrupt or rapid onset of nonspecific systemic symptoms, including some combination of fever, chills, anorexia, and malaise. Patients also may complain of headache, fatigue, soreness in the chest or muscles, abdominal pain, emesis, or diarrhea. Classically the fever may abate after a few days but then quickly return.
Additional signs and symptoms develop depending on the portal of entry; when patients come to medical attention, they usually have at least one of the six major clinical forms of tularemia
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