Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Rabbits face their own deadly virus

CNN

Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease type 2 has killed thousands of rabbits in the American Southwest and poses a grave threat to the pet rabbit industry as well as endangered species and other wild animals that eat rabbits. The disease is thought to have originated around a decade ago in European rabbits, which comprise most domestic rabbits sold in the US, and eventually reached the wild rabbit population: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/18/us/rabbit-virus-hemmorhagic-disease-scn-trnd/index.html

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