Rejected petition Make a cure for myxomatosis, affecting our rabbit and hare population.

It appeared in Britain 1953. It quickly spread to both wild and domestic rabbit populations and within a few years had spread throughout Europe. Myxomatosis has been a threat to wild and domestic rabbits ever since. It's now been reported to have spread to our hare population.

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David Wembridge, Peoples Trust for Endangered Species Survey Officer, warned that if Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease (RHD) or Myxomatosis spreads to non-resistant hares for the first time, the animals could be virtually eradicated in a couple of years. Inadvertently resulted in the deaths of 99 percent of the rabbit population only three years later.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/11/hares-dying-mysteriously-amid-fears-myxomatosis-has-jumped-rabbits/amp/

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Date submitted 13 October 2018
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