id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-277703-sxt9lw0l Belz, Katie Rabbit hemorrhagic disease 2004-04-30 .txt text/plain 1902 134 57 Abstract Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHD) is a rapidly lethal infectious viral disease of the European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) characterized by high mortality rates, acute hepatic necrosis, and disseminated intravascular coagulation. [1] [2] [3] [4] Disease RHD is caused by the Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus (RHDV). In this form of the disease, rabbits die suddenly, exhibiting no or very few signs. The acute form of the RHD is seen in rabbit populations where the disease is enzootic. In a sudden outbreak of rabbit hemorrhagic disease, the duration of signs in rabbits before death is usually less than a day (Photograph kindly provided by Elizabeth Morales Salinas). The Americas were free of RHD until December of 1988 when it is thought that a shipment of -This is the most common disease seen in clinical practice. Outbreak of rabbit hemorrhagic disease in domestic lagomorphs Viral hemorrhagic disease of rabbits and human health ./cache/cord-277703-sxt9lw0l.txt ./txt/cord-277703-sxt9lw0l.txt