Plague and tularemia in the US 2015: Exact reasons for increases ‘hard to pinpoint’

Two zoonotic infections have made headlines in the United States this year, plague and tularemia, due to increased reports of each infection in humans, which has some people scratching their heads asking "why?". The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines a zoonotic disease as a "disease that can be passed between animals and ["]