Need to know the dangers of eating wild rabbit....my son is in the hospital with a high white count and temp of 103 after eating wild rabbit last weekend...

It could be liver fluke which is a parasite that gets into your liver. Never eat rabbits that have funny looking livers. There are a lot of rules that hunters follow with wild rabbits.

1) Don't eat them until after a good freeze.
2) Don't shoot one unless it's running - might be sick.
3) Don't eat one that has white spots on the liver.

All wild game carry risks. They must be correctly butchered and inspected. When cooked they must be cooked for a long time. Rabbit should be boiled first then made into whatever you want to, I think that's the best way to kill any parasite or bacteria. Some just stew it for many hours to kill anything. But I would boil it in very hot water first.

You can also get tularemia(rabbit fever), that mostly happens when you are handling the rabbit.

Ask the doctors what he has.

all i know is if you eat them in the summer, they have a gel in// around the meat, and that will give you rabbit fever, a very high fever. DO it sounds like that. hope he gets better.

If his temperature is that high he could die. Thats way too high. You need to be in the hospital with him and not asking advice online. If anything ask the doctors.

There is tularemia but cooking properly kills the bacteria. It usually comes form handling the rabbit, skinning, butchering without wearing gloves.And even then it's so very rare nowadays and it is easily treated with antibiotics. I don't think your son is ill from the rabbit, it's highly unlikely. The cooking really does get rid of just about everything.

im sorry about your son