A deadly virus is threatening to wipe out entire populations across multiple states. At risk are North America's rabbits. It's a strain of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease, and it's recently appeared in pockets of the Western US. If it continues to spread unchecked, it could harm all dozen-plus species of rabbits in the US and the ecosystems they belong to. The highly contagious illness isn't connected to coronavirus -- only rabbits, hares and pikas, the diminutive cousin of rabbits, can spread it among each other, and humans can't become infected with it. read more https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/18/us/rabbit-virus-hemmorhagic-disease-scn-trnd/index.html
