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How fatal is tularemia?

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With treatment, death rates from tularemia are under 1%. Without treatment, however, the Death Rate may reach 30%. The pneumonia and typhoidal types have the worst prognosis without treatment.

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Septicemic plague has a mortality rate of 40% in treated cases and 100% in untreated cases.

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