PRESS RELEASE: RABBIT HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE (RHDV2) ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO

On April 2, 2020, the Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (FADDL) confirmed RHDV2 in a wild black-tailed jackrabbit and wild cottontails in New Mexico, representing the first detection of this virus in wild rabbits in the United States. On April 8th, the laboratory confirmed that a cottontail and black-tailed jackrabbit had died from RHDV2 in Arizona.

https://agriculture.az.gov/news/press-release-rabbit-hemorrhagic-disease-arizona

National Wildlife Health Center Wildlife Health Bulletin 2020-04: https://www.usgs.gov/media/files/rabbit-hemorrhagic-disease-virus-2-confirmed-wild-rabbits-us

Posted on 11 de abril de 2020, 05:13 PM by archaeopteryx archaeopteryx

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Thank you for this info.

Publicado por casa_de_chaos cerca de 4 anos antes

You are welcome!

Publicado por archaeopteryx cerca de 4 anos antes

it's in texas too: https://tpwd.texas.gov/newsmedia/releases/?req=20200421a

Publicado por puffin21 cerca de 4 anos antes

Thanks @puffin21! Here's a recent USGS National Wildlife Health Center update:

Continued Expansion of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 in North America and Additional Instructions Regarding Mortality Event Investigations

https://www.usgs.gov/media/files/continued-expansion-rabbit-hemorrhagic-disease-virus-2-na

Publicado por archaeopteryx quase 4 anos antes

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