Rabbit Hemorrhagic Fever from China now widespread: Living off the Land Just Got Harder

[HennyPenny]

Ain't that peculiar: now pet bunnies can't go out to play, have to stay inside, need to be quarantined, need a vet certification, can't cross state lines,etc. And the virus started out in China in 1984, now in Covid year 2020-21 prevalent in US. There goes the last free food that isn't government supplied.

Rabbit hemorrhagic disease is a fatal disease in rabbits and is classified as a foreign animal disease in the United States. In February 2020, animal health officials detected rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus serotype 2 (RHDV2) for the third time in the United States, since 2018. Since that detection, RHDV2 has spread to multiple states across the Southwest. RHDV2 does not impact human health.
fs-rhdv2.pdf (usda.gov)

This virus was first reported in China in 1984,[9] from which it spread to much of Asia, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_he ... ic_disease

China: the country that decimated its sparrows because it wrongly thought they were eating too much grain:

"The consequences were immense; with no more sparrows to feed on pests, pests such as grasshoppers had multiple outbreaks, causing mass destruction in agriculture. In the next decade or so, China struggled to repopulate sparrows, resorting to importing foreign sparrows. On top of this, in 1960, there was a nationwide drought and a typhoon to further destroy China’s economy. With no more crops to feed, people in rural farming areas experienced numerous deaths due to starvation. The Great Leap Forward accounted for total estimated deaths of 25–40 million."

https://historyofyesterday.com/maos-war ... df23c487b6

" entire food chains could take a hit if staple species of prey like jackrabbits decline."
"That has huge implications for not just rabbits but everything that eats rabbits," she explained. "Rabbits are this very important segment of the food chain."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-ca ... ecosystems

[2017Fallout]

My father in law just commented that the golf course in northern england had no rabbits any more. I have noticed few buzzards this year and more owls on my land that seem to ne keeping the rats down. Maybe due to no rabbits.