Tag Archive for PRO/AH/EDR> Rabbit hemorrhagic disease – Israel: multiple outbreaks

PRO/AH/EDR> Rabbit hemorrhagic disease – Israel: multiple outbreaks

Other Animal Disease -- Israel[not yet electronically available]Rabbit haemorrhagic disease [RHD] has been diagnosed during May [2018] in various locations in Israel. RHD is a deadly, highly contagious disease that affects rabbits and is caused by a calcivirus (an RNA virus). Dead rabbits were submitted to the Kimron Veterinary Institute where necropsies, in the department of pathology, revealed multiple hemorrhages in various organs; final diagnosis was obtained in KVI's Virology Division by PCR. Read more [...]