Rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD) is a highly infectious and fatal disease that affects wild and domestic rabbits of the species Oryctolagus cuniculus. Well now it has arrived in Delta, the disease assaults the organs and blood vessels of the rabbits, causing a lack of coordination and bleeding through the nose resulting in agonizing pain and certain death. In New Zealand and Australia rabbit hemorrhagic disease is used to kill populations of feral European rabbits that have no natural predators, domestic flies are used to spread the disease. Well what could go wrong, the control measures used there have made their way here and are affecting our rabbits, described here by veterinarians as the Bunny Ebola. Although rabbits that are native to B.C. are immune, the disease is highly contagious and can remain in the environment for weeks; our immune rabbits can carry the virus and spread it to other animals, insects and us. There is a vaccine for rabbit hemorrhagic disease that isn’t actually approved for use here, it requires emergency authorization from our government to use and it is back ordered from European suppliers.
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