Rabbit Fever?

Question

Ok, so i was looking at rabbits and then i decided to look into them a little more. So i researched if they could pass anything onto you. I found that you could get rabbit fever. Is this true and is there a vaccine i could give to my rabbit so i don't get it?

Answer 1

'Rabbit Fever' (Tularemia) is usually carried by wild rodents, rabbits, and hares.  It causes severe symptoms in both humans and domestic rabbits, but wild rabbits and wild rodents are 'reservoirs' for the disease and do not generally show symptoms, they just carry it.  Usually it is transmitted by ticks and deer fly bites, more rarely though a bite by an infected animal or other contact with the tissues of infected animals.  It can also be waterborn.  Most people who get the disease are bitten by an insect carrying the disease, very, very few get it from either skinninng dead wild rabbits or ingesting the meat of wild rabbits that was not sufficiently cooked.  There is no risk from keeping domestic rabbits as were they to get Tularemia it would be very obvious and very quickly fatal.  

Please note that this disease is one of the many reasons why wild rabbits should NEVER be kept as pets.

Answer 2

I don't believe you can catch and disease from domesticated bunnies, at least that's what I read in a breeding and raising book.

You would probably be able to catch it, if a wild rabbit, bit you, and broke the skin.

I've never heard of rabbit Fever before, but like I said, according to one of my books, domestic rabbits can't pass anything to humans.

Rabbits may pass dieses among est each other, and guinea pigs.

Answer 3

only rabies.