Nearly seventy years after myxomatosis decimated the rabbit populations of Australia, Britain and France, a new study reveals how the species has evolved genetic resistance to the disease through ...

The farm’s seven Dutch rabbits fell ill and died after being infected with myxomatosis, Berkeleyside reported. Myxomatosis is a virus carried by bloodsucking insects such as mosquitoes and fleas ...

illness and transmission of the disease to pet rabbits. Myxomatosis is a viral disease that is highly contagious to rabbits and hares and is very often fatal. It is spread by blood-sucking insects ...

Islanders with pet rabbits are advised to keep them in cages amid fears about the spread of myxomatosis. The Government of Jersey is concerned an outbreak of the virus could spread from the wild ...

IT is well known that myxomatosis has caused a high mortality among wild rabbit populations in most parts of England and Wales, and in those parts of Scotland and Ireland to which the disease has ...