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PRO/AH/EDR> Rabbit hemorrhagic disease – UK: (Scotland) wild rabbits

Other Animal Disease -- United KingdomA study found that there could be as little as only 1 million wild rabbits left in Scotland as a result of the latest form of haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV).Researchers from the James Hutton Institute (JHI) in Invergowrie near Dundee are fearing that the new strain could prove as big a killer as myxomatosis -- a fatal disease that causes swelling to rabbits' membranes.Experts suspect there are less than 4 million wild rabbits in the whole of the UK due to Read more [...]