Full title: 'What's Up, Doc?': More than 100 rabbits confiscated from a Brooklyn building diagnosed with the STD syphilis
Full title: 'What's Up, Doc?': More than 100 rabbits confiscated from a Brooklyn building diagnosed with the STD syphilis
What, they're not sure he gave it to them?
I wouldn’t want to live in a building with syphilis.
LOL. I am up too early this morning.
Weird rabbit news ...
Oh LOL What a photo to go with the post...Laugh of the day!
I don’t wanna know the “back” story.
Excerpt from Medirabbit.com:
Rabbit syphilis is a bacterial disease caused by the spirochete Treponema cuniculi. The bacterium is universal and found all over the world. It infests wild and domestic or pet rabbits. The transmission of the bacterium is not well understood. It may be
· Direct, between adult rabbits during mating; · Indirect, passed through the milk from an infected doe to her offspring.
Other modes of transmission cannot be excluded since active syphilis infections have found in pet rabbits that were living individually, without contact with other rabbits.
Incubation time for the disease is long, 3 to 16 weeks. Treponema cuniculi can be dormant for a long period of time. A rabbit can thus remain asymptomatic during several years. A stressful event or suppression of the immune system can trigger the onset of the bacterial disease.
The incidence of syphilis in house rabbits is not known, but it is likely more common than previously thought. The disease is not zoonotic, and cannot be passed from rabbits to other animals and humans.
Administration of the narrow spectrum antibiotic penicillin G (benzathine/procaine: 42.000 - 84.000 UI/kg, SC, IM), 4-6 repeats at intervals of 5 to 7 days, is the treatment of choice against rabbit syphilis. (Rabbits should NEVER be administered penicillin orally; it can lead to severe diarrhea). Most other antibiotics will not cure the infection. Mostly, healing of the skin lesions is observed during the treatment, but relapse will occur as soon as the treatment is stopped as the Treponema cuniculi bacterium is not killed. This is particularly the case of fluoroquinolone antibiotics. Clinical signs and skin lesions develop rapidly after the treatment is stopped, often in a more severe form than before.
If the rabbit is in pain, analgesics can be administrated (e.g. meloxicam). It is imperative to monitor the rabbit's eating during the treatment. Indeed, dying bacteria release toxins inside the rabbit's body and blood circulation and appetite may be affected. Inappetence can last 2-3 days, but the rabbit usually begins eating again on its own. It is essential that the antibiotic is not stopped to avoid onset of bacterial resistance. The rabbit should be encouraged to eat by its own and drink. If this is not the case, force feeding food with a syringe and subcutaneous fluid administration is necessary.
Cant' catch me 'cuz the rabbit done died
Da-nant duh da-na-na-na-na
That was the first thing I thought of, too.
Gee!
Who were the lucky detectives who found THAT?!?!?
Briscoe and Logan? I bet Lenny would come up with something like:
“Fricasee, maybe, but this??”
He apparently has a great appreciation for virgins.
“More than 100 rabbits confiscated from a Brooklyn building diagnosed with the STD syphilis”
How exactly does a building contract an STD?
I’m a fluffy little love bunny.
So, PLAYBOY Magazine chose a rabbit as it’s mascot for this reason?
I cannot mentally make that leap. :-)
Still MUCH SAFER to do it with a rabbit than an American woman in NYC.
Would you mind terribly if we made this the February UT?