Tularemia

Tularemia — commonly known as rabbit fever — is a bacterial infection that often slips into the human body via rodents, hares, or tick bites. Medically, it usually begins inconspicuously: an ulcer on the skin, a swollen lymph node, a vague sense of illness. Only later does the full picture emerge — fever, exhaustion, sometimes lung involvement or systemic spread. The pathogen is called Francisella tularensis. The infection is rare, but serious. It needs to be treated.

That is one level. The other level asks a different question: Why does a person become susceptible to exactly this pathogen? Why does it break through in this body, at this stage of life, in this person — and not in the neighbour who worked on the same field? The psychosomatic perspective is not interested in the pathogen itself. It is interested in the soil in which it was able to grow.