Rabbitpox

Rabbitpox

Rabbitpox is a disease of rabbits caused by a virus of the genus "Orthopoxvirus" and the family "Poxviridae".cite web
url = http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=99011
title = Medical Dictionary - 'rabbitpox virus'
accessdate = 2007-04-03
publisher = mediLexicon
language = English] Rabbitpox was first isolated at the Rockefeller Institute in New York in 1933, following a series of epidemics in the laboratory rabbits.cite journal
quotes =
author = C. Upton
date = August 12, 2005
title = Complete coding sequences of the rabbitpox virus genome
journal = Journal of General Virology
volume = 86
issue =
pages = 2969–2977
url = http://vir.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/86/11/2969.pdf
language = English
format = PDF
accessdate = 2007-04-03
doi = 10.1099/vir.0.81331-0 ] It is an acute disease only known to infect laboratory rabbits as no cases have been reported in wild rabbits; it also cannot infect humans.cite web
url = http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/171327.htm
title = Rabbitpox
accessdate = 2007-04-03
work = The Merck Veterinary Manual
language = English]

History

Rabbitpox has not been recognised in wild rabbits, however a few outbreaks have been reported in the USA since 1930 [ [http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/171327.htm Merck Veterinary Manual] ] .

ymptoms

*Pox lesions may or may not be present on the skin.
*Most rabbits develop a fever and nasal discharge.
*The mortality varies but is always high.
*The most characteristic lesions seen at necropsy are a skin rash, subcutaneous edema, and edema of the mouth and other body openings.

Infection

"Rabbitpox virus" is a highly infectious airborne agent, which spreads very rapidly through laboratories which contain rabbits causing a high rate of mortality. Because of the edematous condition, “poxless” rabbitpox may be confused with myxomatosis. The virus may be isolated or the infection diagnosed serologically by methods appropriate to vaccinia. Spread through a rabbitry is rapid, but rabbits inoculated with smallpox vaccine are immune.

Rabbitpox virus is closely related immunologically to vaccinia virus, consequently rabbits that have been inoculated with the smallpox (vaccinia virus) vaccine have immunity against rabbitpox.

Danger to humans

Rabbitpox virus does not infect humans.

References


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