To prevent tularemia, attention must be paid to reducing risk factors.
Behavioral risk factors
- Contact with infected animal material (via skin/mucous membranes) [esp. hunters].
- Consumption of infected food
- Drinking infected drinking water
- Consumption of insufficiently heated contaminated meat (e.g., hare).
- Inhalation of infected/contaminated dust or aerosols (e.g., during industrial washing and chopping of contaminated vegetables, hay making, or lawn mowing)
- Processing of game meat and agricultural products
- Bite or bite infected blood-sucking arthropod (eg, from horseflies, mosquitoes, ticks).
