Tularemia: What You Can Do

• Limit your potential exposure to tularemia by wearing long pants and long-sleeved shirts.
• Apply insect repellent containing DEET, especially to areas around where insects could access your skin (bottom of pants and around wrists).
• Wear gloves and long-sleeved shirts if handling domestic or wild animals.
• Use a sleeping net if you intend to sleep outdoors.
• Avoid recreational activities around swampy or moist areas where biting insects are abundant.
• Contact your physician immediately if you develop flu-like symptoms after handling wildlife.

To report dead wildlife, please call the Wildlife Disease Hotline at 877-972-8426. Wildlife health personnel will respond Monday through Friday during normal business hours. You can leave a message if it is before or after business hours. Fresh samples are required for testing. Recently dead animals may be collected if gloves are worn and the animal is double bagged and frozen. If you have a wildlife-related emergency, please call our 24-hour dispatch center at 623-236-7201. If the animal you are calling about has been shot and you are reporting possible illegal activity, call Operation Game Thief at 800-352-0700.