Did you know Australia has a rabbit problem? It’s estimated somewhere around 200 million wild rabbits are hopping around ...

By exposing lab rabbits to these archived strains, the team showed that by the 1990s, the virus had gained a new ability: It could completely shut down a rabbit’s immune system. This stops the ...

After its introduction in 1950, myxoma virus became less lethal to the rabbits, but Dr. Read and his colleagues discovered that it reversed course in the 1990s.

The myxomatosis virus, a disease which causes fatal tumors in rabbits, was introduced into the country. To begin with, success looked to have been achieved, the rabbit population going from 600 ...

The evolution of a rabbit virus in Australia shows that viruses don't necessarily become less deadly over time, according to a new study published last week.. The study, published in the peer ...

With their outsized ears and fluffy fur, rabbits are often seen as cute and harmless. Yet the creature is behind one of the globe's most harmful biological invasions, ravaging Australia, whose ...

Australia’s booming wild rabbit population can be traced to 13 English animals that were released on ... such as Calicivirus in the 1990s and K5 virus last decade, and pockets of Australia, ...

A common misconception is that viruses become milder over time as they become endemic within a population. Yet new research, led by Penn State and the University of Sydney, reveals that a virus — ...

Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus Type 2, or RHDV2, can cause rabbits to struggle with breathing, ... And the rapidity with which the virus can spread raises alarms. In Australia, ...

The virus was first documented in France in 2010 and has since spread across Europe, parts of the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Asia, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States.

Australia’s top science agency the CSIRO released the world’s first vertebrate pest biocontrol in 1950, in a desperate bid to quell the rabbit plague. The virus, known as myxomatosis or myxo ...