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PRO/AH/EDR> Rabbit hemorrhagic disease – USA (05): (OR) feral rabbit, alert

Other Animal Disease -- United StatesThe USDA Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory has confirmed rabbit hemorrhagic disease (RHD) in a feral domestic rabbit collected in La Pine, Oregon, on [9 Apr 2021]. While the virus is highly contagious among rabbit populations and can spread through contact with infected rabbits, it poses no human health risk. The virus is only known to infect rabbits and hares.This confirmation comes a few weeks after the same virus, RHDV2, was found in a feral domestic Read more [...]