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bekahed979 t1_je8ap90 wrote

Reply to comment by Asha_Brea in TIL that tularemia is an infectious disease that can be contracted by “inhaling particles from an infected rabbit ground up [by] a lawnmower”. by krisalyssa

I was thinking of the episode where the woman was sleeping a lot and worked at a fancy pants restaurant as the meat cutter. As I think on it it wasn't tularemia in that episode either, she had a sleeping sickness because slept with her husband's best friend, IIRC

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Asha_Brea t1_je8auv3 wrote

Yup, the episode Fidelity.

She had African Trypanosomiasis.

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bekahed979 t1_je8ayw0 wrote

I haven't watched that in years, I'm surprised I remember it

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[deleted] t1_je8rc5f wrote

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Asha_Brea t1_je8rvfe wrote

https://www.healthline.com/health/sleeping-sickness-symptoms

"Most people get African sleeping sickness after being bitten by an infected tsetse fly. In rare cases, the condition has been transmitted from mother to child, through sexual contact, or in a laboratory setting."

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Don't forget that House treats the rarest of the rarest cases by design, and even then, the cases behave in an unusual manner.

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Animallover4321 t1_je9m7ka wrote

I think it was because she had never been in an area where the fly lived so she could only catch it via sexual contact.

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