Merry Christmas Everyone, Rabbit fever is what you caught by eating those disease-carrying rabbits before the first hard freeze of the winter. I can remember my brothers being told that it was too early in the winter to go rabbit hunting, so you can see that it can't just be an old time disease, can it? And you'd better say no. Although I couldn't find those two terms in the links that I checked below, interesting sights to go browsing for other diseases are: http://www.tip.net.au/~dnum/medico.htm is a good source for those terms http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/guide/epidem.html> is a good source about epidemics that occurred http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/disease.htm http://www.uftree.com/UFT/HowTos/SettingOut/disease1.html Dorothy Marci, thanks for typing those news clips in! That was interesting--I love reading that stuff. Emma McCluren may be a McClurken, so I was happy about that! I'll be running my company off too! What was rabbit fever/tularemia? Blessings, Laura untangling McClurkens