12/19/2021
RHD just wiped out a colony of rabbits North of us and is threatening to spread farther than previously thought putting Alberta’s mountain cottontails, white-tailed jackrabbits, snowshoe hares and pikas at risk.
"“It was a very hot virus that rapidly ran through the colony and killed essentially all the feral domestic rabbits,” Margo Pybus, University of Alberta professor and wildlife disease expert, said in an email."
A fluffle of feral cemetery rabbits at a northwest Edmonton cemetery, plagued by a syphilis outbreak in 2020, has been wiped out by a different and rare…
