Preventing the spread of a deadly virus to Pennsylvania's rabbits and hares‎

Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus type 2 is a terrible way for any animal to die, especially creatures as gentle as these. Highly contagious and lethal, it threatens wild and domestic rabbits. First detected in the United States in 2020, it has rapidly spread throughout the western states, becoming endemic as far as South Dakota, Kansas, and Texas. Two years later, Pennsylvania had its first two cases at a Fayette County domestic farmed rabbit facility.