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Outdoor Health and Safety Tips

Hunters, campers, and hikers should be aware that they could be exposed to diseases passed by ticks, fleas, and mosquitoes. Rats or mice in cabins can also spread disease. The best way to avoid getting these diseases is to follow tips on protection.

• Anthrax
• Arboviral (Mosquito-borne) Diseases
• Brucellosis
• Brucellosis and feral swine  (PDF)
• Chagas' Disease
• Encephalitis
• Envenomization (Snake and Spider Bites)
• Facts About Plague
• Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
• Lyme Disease (7-35) (PDF)
• Murine Typhus/Fleaborne Typhus (7-32) (PDF)
• Outdoor Health and Safety Tips (PDF)
• Plague
• Q-Fever
• Rabies
• Rabies and Wildlife Poster (7-25) (PDF)
• Raccoon Roundworm Prevention (PDF)
• Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
• Safety: Keep safety in mind when working outdoors
• Tularemia
• West Nile Virus Fact Sheet for Campers (PDF)
• West Nile Virus
• Wild Side of Rabies, The (7-16) (PDF)
• Zoonoses (7-27) (PDF)