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Title: Pet owners urged to vaccinate rabbits against renewed myxomatosis threat
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 25, 2008, 08:34:23 PM

Pet owners urged to vaccinate rabbits against renewed myxomatosis threat
Times Online
September 24, 2008
Valerie Elliott, Countryside Editor

Pet rabbits are the latest victims of the country’s wet summer, which is being blamed for a flare up of the killer virus myxomatosis.

The PDSA, the veterinary charity, has reported a 300 per cent increase in cases among domestically kept rabbits in a year. Disease hotspots include Humberside, the West Midlands and the South East.

Myxomatosis, which affects both wild and domestic rabbits, was first identified in the UK in the early 1950s when it almost wiped out the wild rabbit population.

Full Article (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4819306.ece)

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Myxomatosis Cures Bunnies. Myxomatosis: Kills Bunnies Dead. :evillaugh:

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Title: Re: Pet owners urged to vaccinate rabbits against renewed myxomatosis threat
Post by: LC EFA on September 25, 2008, 08:40:39 PM

Best way to inoculate a rabbit from myx is a hot lead injection.

 :-)
 

Title: Re: Pet owners urged to vaccinate rabbits against renewed myxomatosis threat
Post by: Ptarmigan on September 25, 2008, 08:41:10 PM

Quote from: LC EFA on September 25, 2008, 08:40:39 PM

Best way to inoculate a rabbit from myx is an injection of cyanide.

 :-)
 

I agree!