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Myxomatosis is transmitted primarily by insects. The myxoma virus does not replicate in these arthropod hosts, but is physically carried by biting arthropods from one rabbit to another. In North America mosquitoes are the primary mode of viral transmission, and multiple species of mosquito can carry the virus.
This is the reason myxoma virus is very species-specific; it is able to circumvent a certain species of rabbit's immune response, but is unable to do so for any other species. The virus is able to get into the cells of many different species , though, including human, mouse, and monkey, which is generally useless if it is unable to replicate ...
A successful pathogen needs to spread to at least one other host, and lower virulence can result in higher transmission rates under some circumstances. Likewise, genetic resistance against the virus can develop in a host population over time. [2] [29] An example of the evolution of virulence in emerging virus is the case of myxomatosis in ...
The introduction of a disease known as myxomatosis — which was released by a scientist attempting to control garden pests, decimated the rabbit population in traditional Iberian lynx habitats ...
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A legal vaccine exists in Australia for RHD, but no cure is known for either myxomatosis or RHD, and many affected pets have to be euthanized. In Europe, where rabbits are farmed on a large scale, they are protected against myxomatosis and calicivirus with a genetically modified virus [38] developed in Spain.
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European rabbits in Australia 2004 Load of over 3,800 rabbits at Mudgee caught during 1919 plague Rabbits around a waterhole at the myxomatosis trial enclosure on Wardang Island in 1938 Boy with rabbits caught during plague in 1949 near Kerang Rabbits in Warren, New South Wales during a plague in 1949 Releasing the Myxoma virus for Rabbits c. 1937 Wild rabbit in Australia The Rabbit-Proof ...