New variant of Rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD)

[aris]

Is this new or just new to the media?

Fears for Britain's rabbits over deadly virus sweeping through Europe

An aggressive strain of the disease is now thought to be spreading across the UK countryside - sparking fears for Britain's bunnies.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[andy R204]

It's the Daily Fail...First appeared in Chyna in the 80's,well no surprise there.
Wonder if a vaccine is being cooked up for stopping transmission to other bunny rabbits,sure Big Pharma PLC will be all over it

 

[Smellydog]

It's been here for years. It's awful in my opinion. I believe it was introduced deliberately by the bastard state. All deniable of course....

 

[Mr. Gain]

I hope it's not a new and worse strain. VHD has totally eliminated rabbits on one of my permissions, and on another two it has knocked them back so you'll rarely see double figures. It would be very sad to see them go too.

 

[old keeper]

I've noticed that rabbit numbers have recently dropped drastically on my patch here in Devon. It's not Mixy, and I've assumed that it's VHD. Normally, we don't see VHD till later in the year, so it may be something new. Time will tell

 

[Jon P]

It has wiped our local rabbit population pre covid- it’s be hardly worth getting the Harris hawk fit to hunt her every winter.

 

[Camdig]

The area i live in was famous for rabbits until about 20 odd years ago they dropped off and never really came back.

 

[Smellydog]

Years ago I would see a land rover, debadged forest enterprise lr.
I looked in the back of one while the driver was unlocking a gate to a forest once.
In the back was a row of small wooden boxes!
I'd see this land rover regularly every spring and within weeks of its visit all the rabbits got myxi!
Bastard's

 

[JTO]

And here's me just asked for a second .22lr on renewal, because 'there are a few more rabbits about now'.

 

[Brad93]

Which branch of government would have seen the release of VHD?

 

[aris]

Another article

Where have all the rabbits gone?

It’s spring and in this corner of rural Sussex, the bluetits are at the window, newborn lambs are bleating in their pens, and all the rabbits are dead. The burrows are still there, but the chewed grass, the little collections of brown pellets, the white bobtails scattering before your headlights...

www.spectator.co.uk

 

[Woodenbeam]

I've noticed that rabbit numbers have recently dropped drastically on my patch here in Devon. It's not Mixy, and I've assumed that it's VHD. Normally, we don't see VHD till later in the year, so it may be something new. Time will tell

If it was VHD then you won’t see rabbits on the same land again………
We had some cracking ferreting permissions around us in Suffolk………..must be 10-12 years ago.
Ferrets have long since gone, rabbits still not back. They just don’t repopulate the contaminated group in my opinion. I’d love to be wrong.

 

[Woodenbeam]

Which branch of government would have seen the release of VHD?

Not necessarily the government but rumour had it the railway company

 

[VSS]

Not necessarily the government but rumour had it the railway company

Railway companies are above the law.
Don't ever buy a property within 500 metres of a railway. You would have no rights at all. Railway overrides everything.

 

[Brad93]

Railway companies are above the law.
Don't ever buy a property within 500 metres of a railway. You would have no rights at all. Railway overrides everything.

Bloke on another forum, they came through his fence, cut down a number of mature trees, and then rather than replacing his wooden fence stuck a palisade monstrosity across the bottom of his garden.

 

[VSS]

Bloke on another forum, they came through his fence, cut down a number of mature trees, and then rather than replacing his wooden fence stuck a palisade monstrosity across the bottom of his garden.

I heard of a whole street of newbuild houses being bulldozed by a railway company because they'd been built 1 metre too close to the foot of the embankment.
I got that story straight from the horses mouth, so to speak. From the guy who ordered the demolition to take place.

 

[old keeper]

If it was VHD then you won’t see rabbits on the same land again………
We had some cracking ferreting permissions around us in Suffolk………..must be 10-12 years ago.
Ferrets have long since gone, rabbits still not back. They just don’t repopulate the contaminated group in my opinion. I’d love to be wrong.

Not in my experience. Land where VHD has been rampant in the past still has outbreaks from time to time, when rabbits disappear without a trace, unlike Mixy, where the victims are all too obvious. What is a little different this year is the timing; I can't remember VHD (or its variants) appearing so early.

This area was one of the very first to experience VHD, and it's reappeared on a regular basis ever since.

 

[mudman]

Which branch of government would have seen the release of VHD?

NFU

 

[VSS]

NFU

That's not a branch of government.

 

[finbar]

A think vhd did come out of china but had something to do with pet rabbits been bred for the meat market