S6 E4: Little Bunny Foo Foo: The Story of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease

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This one is about a disease that not many people know about, but has decimated wild rabbit populations worldwide. 

The Show Notes are available below. 

Rabbits, hares and pikas belong to a family of animals called “Lagomorphs” or order Lagomorpha. Rabbits and hares belong to the family Leporidae and pikas belong to the family Ochotonidae.

While rabbits and hares have long ears, a short tail and very strong hind limbs that give them that characteristic bounding motion, pikas are smaller, have shorter, rounded ears, no external tail to speak of and smaller hind limbs that give them more of a scampering motion.

Lagomorphs are small to medium-sized herbivores that tend to live underground. At one time, they were included in the Order Rodentia since both orders possess a set of incisors that grow throughout their lives. However, lagomorphs also have a second pair of incisors that are set directly behind the growing pair in the upper jaw. This trait is specific to lagomorphs.

Now, thanks to species gene coding, we know that these two orders have very distinct and separate evolutionary histories.

Rabbits are an important part of the ecosystems that they inhabit. Without them, many prey animals wouldn’t survive. This disease could kill off a necessary food source for coyotes, hawks, eagles, bears and other prey animals.

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Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Show Notes:

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/animal_health/fs-rhdv2.pdf

https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/animal-health-and-welfare/animal-health/rabbit-hemorrhagic-disease

https://cwhl.vet.cornell.edu/disease/rabbit-hemorrhagic-disease

http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/vet/RHDV.htm

https://datcp.wi.gov/Pages/Programs_Services/RabbitHemorrhagicDisease.aspx

https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/diseases/rabbit-hemorrhagic/

https://veterinaryresearch.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1297-9716-43-12

https://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factsheets/pdfs/rabbit_hemorrhagic_disease.pdf

https://veterinaryresearch.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13567-015-0245-5#:~:text=RHDV%20is%20a%20non%2Denveloped,capsid%20subunit%2C%20the%20VP60%20protein.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9541616/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/rabbit-hemorrhagic-disease#:~:text=Viral%20haemorrhagic%20disease%20(or%20rabbit,and%20faeces%20from%20infected%20rabbits.

https://veterinaryresearch.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1297-9716-43-12#:~:text=Transmission%20of%20RHDV%20may%20occur,vector%2Dborne%20transmission%20by%20scavenging

https://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factsheets/pdfs/rabbit_hemorrhagic_disease.pdf

https://veterinaryresearch.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1297-9716-43-12

https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/diseases/rabbit-hemorrhagic/

https://datcp.wi.gov/Pages/Programs_Services/RabbitHemorrhagicDisease.aspx

http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/vet/RHDV.htm

https://cwhl.vet.cornell.edu/disease/rabbit-hemorrhagic-disease

https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/animal-health-and-welfare/animal-health/rabbit-hemorrhagic-disease

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/animal_health/fs-rhdv2.pdf

https://www.britannica.com/animal/lagomorph

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