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dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
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Location: South Kent

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 06 9:36 am Post subject: And now, RABBIT flu...
Sounds nasty... https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5269766.stm

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 06 9:56 am Post subject:
Poor people, what a horrible thing to happen. It doesn't sound like it's something that's very common, however, which is a blessing.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 06 10:27 am Post subject:
Very uncommon, and to die of it is to the best of my knowledge unheard of.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 06 11:09 am Post subject:
I read this in the paper this morning and wondered if it would be wise to use disposable gloves for prepping freshly shot animals? Perhaps only necessary if you have an open wound on you hand?

Snap Cap

Joined: 16 Apr 2006
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Location: Outside a warren armed to the teeth.

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 06 11:15 am Post subject:
I already use the blue mechanics gloves, much tougher than the white ones. Never gut a rabbit or de- breast a woodie without them.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 06 11:17 am Post subject:

Snap Cap wrote:

I already use the blue mechanics gloves, much tougher than the white ones. Never gut a rabbit or de- breast a woodie without them.

Any reason, I assume you might pick up something more common than bunny flu?

Snap Cap

Joined: 16 Apr 2006
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Location: Outside a warren armed to the teeth.

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 06 11:25 am Post subject:

To be honest I don't know they are just a part of my kit. Its easier than carrying around hand wash which I used to do. Now I just paunch the bunny hang him on a branch take the gloves off and take them home at then end of my expidition.

I was told by an long in the tooth ferreter that a rabbit with flu has a runny nose! how true this is I dont know, but as long as said bunny is properly cooked then I dont see a panic.

Beckyess

Joined: 08 Jan 2006
Posts: 1076
Location: Worcestershire

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 06 12:32 pm Post subject:
I think it's called the snuffles in domestic rabbits and yes they do have a runny nose. Becky

bernie-woman

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7824
Location: shropshire

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 06 12:33 pm Post subject:
Isn't it a bug carried by cats and dogs too?

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 06 1:39 pm Post subject:
i thought the guy died of a sceptacemia more than of rabbit flu but not being at all knowledgable, perhaps the two are linked...............

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 06 1:40 pm Post subject:
Don't worry about it . Somethings going to get us all one day

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
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Location: carms in wales

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 06 2:23 pm Post subject:
true but if it is like the curse of the were rabbit i would rather i went some other way

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 06 2:57 pm Post subject:

Nanny wrote:

i thought the guy died of a sceptacemia more than of rabbit flu but not being at all knowledgable, perhaps the two are linked...............

The thing about blood infections like that is that the term 'septicaemia' is really generic, doesn't mean a particular bacterium or anything like that.

Rabbit flu is caused by the bacterium Pasteurella multocida, and in ruminants that happens sometimes. Not a virus, like bird flu or the flu that we would normally get as people, but the same bacrterium that causes a disease of poultry called fowl cholera. It is unusual for a person to get an infection with it, but the symptoms would start off as illness, a temperature, flu like symptoms, but it would be internal haemorrhaging (linked to the septicaemia) that would do you in.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 06 3:05 pm Post subject:
Cattle get paturella from organisms in the soil, thats why farmers like to their moles sorted out before cutting their grass for hay or silage. A nasty disease

hardworkinghippy

Joined: 01 Jan 2005
Posts: 1110
Location: Bourrou South West France

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 06 3:46 pm Post subject:
Fabrice is a gamekeeper and he had a circular telling him to wear thick rubber gloves just a few weeks ago. ("Le gale" - a parasitic skin disease, which a lot of foxes round here have, was the reason given for wearing the gloves whilst working.) We're just getting rabbit numbers up to a decent level after mixi, and a lot of bunnies around here have the sniffles.

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