Posted on 07/06/2020 1:21:56 PM PDT by dynachrome
Bugs Update: “I KNOW I shouda’ never made that left hand toin in Albaquoirkie.”
Pray for the Bugs.
Bunny ebola: just doing the work that coyotes refuse to do!
I thought it was Duck Season.
OH, NO!! Hide your rabbits, your gerbils and Poor ol’ Bugs Bunny. At least Elmer can’t get him before Dr. Faucci does!!
There are two strains of RHDV, 1 and 2. Both are in Australia and RHDV1 has been released intentionally to kill the rabbits that were introduced in Australia and are really pests here.
I *think* humans are immune. (At least until China monkeys around with it...)Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
The false positive rate was 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.
So far, humans can’t catch it, per the article, but that’s some pretty ugly stuff in the bunny world.
Better not spread to Idaho where my daughter lives with four dogs who would bound after a bunny and tear it to bits, perhaps infecting themselves in the process.
Since April, the US Department of Agriculture has confirmed RHDV2 cases in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Texas. Parts of western Mexico have also been hit with the virus.This outbreak is the fourth time RHDV2 has been reported in the US. (Variants of the virus have spread across almost every continent since scientists reported the first case in China 35 years ago.) But it's the first time the virus has spread beyond domesticated animals to hit rabbits, pikas, and hares native to North America. Cottontails, snowshoe hares, and jackrabbits have all gotten sick.
I remember back in the early 1990's here in S.E. Michigan, the golf course we always played and where my dad was the park chief ranger, had raccoons wondering aimlessly around the park infected with a disease similar to dog distemper.....
If spotted along the park road, he dispatched them then called park maintenance to pick them up.........
Eventually the raccoons died out and the numbers returned to normal.......
“(At least until China monkeys around with it...)”
At least until China bats it around...
That’s a MUCH better line!
Well played!
“Rabbit season!”
“No, duck season!”
etc.
Mankind is just going to keep messing in areas he has no business messing in. Why not use shotguns?!
No. Distemper I can swallow, but not this. This is not natural.
I get where you are coming from and I have to agree with you........Weird stuff.
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