Thousand of rabbits have died of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease type 2 in the U.S., where a vaccine has yet to be made available.
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. As Covid-19 is believed to have jumped from bats to humans, some scientists think Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease type 2 jumped from domesticated to wild rabbits in Europe.
The disease has struck desert and mountain cottontails, black-tailed and antelope jackrabbits; luckily, all these species are far from being endangered, reports theResearchers are concerned that less populous rabbit species may go extinct from the RHDV2, and that rabbit predators may lose an important food source, according toScientists say that the disease cannot pass from rabbits to humans, but those with pet rabbits should...
to keeping their bunnies’ food and habitat free of anything that may have come in contact with wild rabbits or birds.Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease type 1 was discovered in China in 1984, where researchers believe it may have originated in angora rabbits. Type 2 has been found more recently in Australia, Canada and the United States after it originated in France in 2010 and subsequently spread in Europe, say researchers.
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