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Myxomatosis
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Myxomatosis tends to come and go in waves, usually outbreaks occur when a population becomes high, it may seem to completely disappear for a few years only to return with a vengance.
Apparently some signs of resistance has been claimed, due to rabbits learning to live outside of burrows, where the desease carrying flea dwells..
we live in bucks and it is rife here the farmers use or used it .....i think they would say nothing to do with us!!
I always take them to st tiggywinkles wildlife hospital at haddenham, but the rabbits may be blind, and in excrusiating pain, but there still hard to catch, we tried to catch one the other week as there is an antidote they can give them, but there hidding instincs are amazing and we were unable to catch it...2 days later it was run over unfortunately....but my daughter and i try our best to catch them to stop there suffering
logman's right - it tends to come in cycles.
It's incurable and frequently fatal. Although some rabbits have been known to recover from the disease, I think it's cruel to try and nurse them through, with no guarantee of survival and terrible distress to a wild creature from handling and illness.
Best thing to do is a swift end to the life.