Thread: O.T. myxi.
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Old 04-06-2011, 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Sacha[_4_] View Post
We saw quite a few myxi rabbits round here up to a few years ago. I
don't know if the disease is still in these parts but I haven't seen a
rabbit with it for a couple of years.
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I think it's cyclic. It spreads more easily when the rabbit population is higher so the rabbits are in close contact. Then when the rabbit population has decreased as a result, it can't spread so well, so the rabbit population builds up again, and then it can spread again sop you have another obvious outbreak.
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