Asha_Brea t1_je88e3j wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:59 AM

Reply to comment by bekahed979 in TIL that tularemia is an infectious disease that can be contracted by “inhaling particles from an infected rabbit ground up [by] a lawnmower”. by krisalyssa

They thought it might have been tularemia, but wasn't.

https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Tularemia

If you made the same mistake that I did, then you are thinking of the Hunting episode.

bekahed979 t1_je8ap90 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 3:19 AM

I was thinking of the episode where the woman was sleeping a lot and worked at a fancy pants restaurant as the meat cutter. As I think on it it wasn't tularemia in that episode either, she had a sleeping sickness because slept with her husband's best friend, IIRC

Asha_Brea t1_je8auv3 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 3:21 AM

Yup, the episode Fidelity.

She had African Trypanosomiasis.

bekahed979 t1_je8ayw0 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 3:22 AM

I haven't watched that in years, I'm surprised I remember it

[deleted] t1_je8rc5f wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:16 AM

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Asha_Brea t1_je8rvfe wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:23 AM

https://www.healthline.com/health/sleeping-sickness-symptoms

"Most people get African sleeping sickness after being bitten by an infected tsetse fly. In rare cases, the condition has been transmitted from mother to child, through sexual contact, or in a laboratory setting."

Don't forget that House treats the rarest of the rarest cases by design, and even then, the cases behave in an unusual manner.

Animallover4321 t1_je9m7ka wrote on March 30, 2023 at 12:43 PM

I think it was because she had never been in an area where the fly lived so she could only catch it via sexual contact.

xminh t1_je8bqrn wrote on March 30, 2023 at 3:29 AM

Thanks for that. I love how even though it’s been several years, reading the episode plot brings me back