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Tick-born rabbit disease reported on Long Island 2%
By Newsday Studios3% File Footage27% Photo Credit: Newsday27% Daniel Goodrich3% Steven Sunshine3% Wildlife Center of Long Island3%
7/30/2026, 11:00:00 PM
Topics: Tularemia, Rabbit Fever
Keywords: Health, Environment And Nature, Top Video, Newsdaytv Debrief, Has Horizontal, Has Vertical
BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 20.8% saturation with 11 hits. Analysis detected 18 faulty-reasoning hits from 53 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 8.5% and a BS Rank of 2% (24,801 of 25,269 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 98.10% of the article peer group.
Tularemia, also known as rabbit fever, has been reported in Suffolk County.
It's a rare disease that can spread to humans via ticks.
NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa has more.
Credit: Newsday Studios; File Footage; Photo Credit: Newsday / Daniel Goodrich; Steven Sunshine; Wildlife Center of Long Island
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