{"id":18969,"date":"2020-07-01T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/deadly-new-bunny-ebola-killing-thousands-of-rabbits-across-us\/"},"modified":"2020-07-01T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T16:15:00","slug":"deadly-new-bunny-ebola-killing-thousands-of-rabbits-across-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/deadly-new-bunny-ebola-killing-thousands-of-rabbits-across-us\/","title":{"rendered":"#Deadly new \u2018bunny Ebola\u2019 killing thousands of rabbits across US"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Deadly new \u2018bunny Ebola\u2019 killing thousands of rabbits across US<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 1, 2020 |<\/span> 12:15pm |<\/span> Updated July 1, 2020 | 12:53pm<\/span><\/p>\n

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As if the world wasn\u2019t plague-stricken enough, a deadly new virus that\u2019s more contagious than the coronavirus is sweeping across the US, killing thousands of both domestic and wild rabbits in the Southwest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe refer to it as \u2018bunny Ebola,\u2019\u2009\u201d Texas veterinarian Dr. Amanda Jones tells the Cut of the leporine affliction, whose official name is rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV2). And while the disease is not related to Ebola \u2014 an ailment marked by hemorrhaging \u2014 it does cause lesions in rabbits\u2019 organs and tissues, which results in internal bleeding and death. Even more peculiar, many of the affected creatures\u2019 noses started bleeding post-mortem.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still have no idea where it originated,\u201d Ralph Zimmerman, New Mexico state veterinarian,\u00a0tells the Cut. However, since April, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has confirmed RHDV2 cases in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Texas and New Mexico. Nearly 500 bunnies in New Mexico were infected between March and June alone.<\/p>\n

RHDV2 \u2014 which spreads through blood, feces and urine \u2014 is more contagious and deadlier than the coronavirus, with a 90% mortality rate recorded in the current outbreak, reports the Cut. Zimmerman recounts one instance where someone lost 200 rabbits to the disease in one weekend.<\/p>\n

In a similar incident in New York City, the rabbit-ravaging virus culled more than a dozen bunnies at Manhattan\u2019s Center for Avian and Exotic Medicine.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried to do CPR, but these rabbits were dead within minutes,\u201d says veterinarian Lorelei D\u2019Avolio of bunny Ebola\u2019s horrific effects. \u201cThey would convulse, scream horribly and die.\u201d<\/p>\n

And while the RHDV2 doesn\u2019t infect people, cats or dogs, it does cling to articles of clothing and fur. So a person or a pet can easily bring it home and help facilitate the spread of the virus. Not only that, but the hardy disease can live on surfaces for 3 \u00bd months at room temperature and can survive freezing, as well as temperatures up to 122 degrees for at least an hour.<\/p>\n

The current iteration of RHDV2 only hit the US recently, cropping up among pet rabbits in Ohio in 2018, before later surfacing in Washington state in the summer of 2019 and New York City just this past February. Worldwide, versions of the virus have been observed in France, Australia and Canada with the first known case being reported in China in 1984.<\/p>\n

However, the current epidemic is particularly alarming because this is the first time the virus has jumped from domesticated animals to wild rabbits, pikas and hares. \u201cTo hear it\u2019s burning through the wild rabbit populations, that, of course, furthers our concerns that much more,\u201d Eric Stewart, executive director of the American Rabbit Breeders Association, tells VIN News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Currently, there is no locally available cure for the disease. The USDA is developing a vaccine; however, it likely won\u2019t be ready before the end of the year. In the interim, veterinarians are forced to rely on unlicensed European imports that can take over a month to arrive, reports Business Insider.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a new problem that\u2019s here to stay,\u201d says Jones.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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