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Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus spreading quickly in wild rabbits

Emily

Emily

Editor, Senior Moderator
This seems to have evolved from using the original form of the virus, (it was found in South America, I think), to control agricultural damage caused by introduced rabbits in some countries. Now it has evolved to kill wild and endangered species around the world.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020...-north-america
A deadly virus is killing wild rabbits in North America
By Erik StokstadMay. 20, 2020 , 2:40 PM

A deadly virus is spreading quickly among wild rabbits in southwestern North America, threatening populations and possibly endangered species. Last week the virus, which causes a hemorrhagic disease, reached Southern California.

“The outlook right now is so unbelievably bleak,” says Hayley Lanier, a mammologist at the University of Oklahoma. “We’re simply left to watch the wave spread out and worry about imperiled species in its path.”

Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus first spread worldwide in the 1980s, devastating domestic rabbit populations in China and Europe. It raced through Australia, where feral rabbits had flourished after being introduced in the 18th century. Populations began to recover, but then a new strain emerged in France in 2010 that also kills wild species...
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https://www.theguardian.com/environm...are-population

Deadly rabbit virus threatens UK brown hare population

Cases confirmed in Dorset and Essex with public urged to report sick or dead animals
 
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