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Fears over wild rabbit virus risk
Rutherglen Reformer
|May 14, 2025
I have read about a disease wiping out wild rabbits in the countryside where I live. Do you have any more information? Does it pose a risk to my pair of three-year-old indoor rabbits?
There has been a dramatic decrease in wild rabbit numbers in the UK between 1995 and 2018, 53%, down, on average. But in other areas, such as the East Midlands, it was 88% and in Scotland 83%.
This epidemic shows no signs of slowing down. The cause is rabbit haemorrhagic disease, which has a very high mortality rate.
This story is from the May 14, 2025 edition of Rutherglen Reformer.
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