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VACCINATE- Myxo, RHD1 & RHD2 -Updated 1st October 2018

If you are on FB and you hear of any suspected/confirmed RHD2 cases it would be very helpful if you could report them on the FB RHD2 Group.There is a pinned post on which these reports can be made. This enables the Group's Admin to keep the invaluable RHD2 Map updated.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/174...dz04tu8AKDFsOeUYjG0cvm6BSnkuqhHwQMVfuUeudVjXQ

A bit of additional info from the Group's Admin


''Map now up to date to the end of August - 17 confirmed and 34 suspected separate cases in August spread all around the country. Please report any additional/new cases in this thread. Minimum required information to enable us to plot on the map is: location (nearest town/first half of postcode), number of rabbits affected, whether confirmed by lab testing or suspected.

Please bear in mind that the map only contains cases we are aware of, so will be the tip of the iceberg. Thank you for your continued help in tracking this awful disease.''
 
Thanks Jane...I've added one other teensy, tiny thing to the list of info required for us to update the RHD2 map - and that's approximate date. Most people are reporting something that has happened very recently but sometimes they have only just discovered us and want to tell us about something from a while ago.
 
Santa said:
Thanks Jane...I've added one other teensy, tiny thing to the list of info required for us to update the RHD2 map - and that's approximate date. Most people are reporting something that has happened very recently but sometimes they have only just discovered us and want to tell us about something from a while ago.
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Yes, the actual date of the event is very relevant to get a picture of where the virus is on the rise and when. The slight lull in reports that occurred seems like a very long time ago now :cry:
 
Indeed! I wonder if the virus is more virulent in warmer weather for whatever reason (you'd have thought that the increased UV would be destroying it quickly) or whether it's simply down to increased movement of people, dog walkers etc in the warmer weather, so it's spreading around more than in winter when we shut ourselves in our houses and stay there!
 
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Indeed! I wonder if the virus is more virulent in warmer weather for whatever reason (you'd have thought that the increased UV would be destroying it quickly) or whether it's simply down to increased movement of people, dog walkers etc in the warmer weather, so it's spreading around more than in winter when we shut ourselves in our houses and stay there!
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I have been wondering that too. I think it has to be the increased movement of people as apart from the weather that is the only other variant I can think of.
 
feel very uneasy suddenly as august there was a suspected case right in my town. even though they're vaccinated its such a worry :(

wish I had the money, I'd put posters up all over my town to get the message out.. perhaps that is what it will take.
 
binkyCodie said:
feel very uneasy suddenly as august there was a suspected case right in my town. even though they're vaccinated its such a worry :(

wish I had the money, I'd put posters up all over my town to get the message out.. perhaps that is what it will take.
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You can print off some of these and ask permission to post them in various places.


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Dont just randomly do it as you could be done for 'Flyposting'

I am hoping to have some displayed in my local Supermarkets next to their display of Rabbit Food etc
 
I took my doe, Clover to the vet today for her Filavac booster. I discussed the timing with her and was told if she goes outside at all it needs to be given every 6 months. She said maybe a strictly indoor rabbit would be ok with an annual dose. She gave me the information sheet that comes with the vaccine and it clearly states annual, but she said in England it needs to be 6 months. So 'at risk' can mean going in the garden? Also, the advice sheet stated it covered RHD1 and 2 which is what I read online, but I have also been told by a vet that it doesn't. There is just so much varying advice given about this subject. Hence the need for a rabbit savvy vet, I suppose.


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lizziesos999 said:
I took my doe, Clover to the vet today for her Filavac booster. I discussed the timing with her and was told if she goes outside at all it needs to be given every 6 months. She said maybe a strictly indoor rabbit would be ok with an annual dose. She gave me the information sheet that comes with the vaccine and it clearly states annual, but she said in England it needs to be 6 months. So 'at risk' can mean going in the garden? Also, the advice sheet stated it covered RHD1 and 2 which is what I read online, but I have also been told by a vet that it doesn't. There is just so much varying advice given about this subject. Hence the need for a rabbit savvy vet, I suppose.


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It doesn't matter if your house rabbits go outside or not, you go outside and potentially bring the virus in with you. I personally think that house rabbits may be at greater risk as most will come into contact with their owners and belongs more than outdoor rabbits. All my bunnies indoor and outdoor have Filavac annually.
 
lizziesos999 said:
I took my doe, Clover to the vet today for her Filavac booster. I discussed the timing with her and was told if she goes outside at all it needs to be given every 6 months. She said maybe a strictly indoor rabbit would be ok with an annual dose. She gave me the information sheet that comes with the vaccine and it clearly states annual, but she said in England it needs to be 6 months. So 'at risk' can mean going in the garden? Also, the advice sheet stated it covered RHD1 and 2 which is what I read online, but I have also been told by a vet that it doesn't. There is just so much varying advice given about this subject. Hence the need for a rabbit savvy vet, I suppose.


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Hi Lizzie

That's why I started an RHD2 thread to try and cut through some of these misconceptions :)

http://forums.rabbitrehome.org.uk/showthread.php?471653-RHD2-Thread-*U-D-3-Sept*

Filavac covers RHD1 ad RHD2.

Eravac covers only RHD2

Filavac is an annual vaccine and as such will give immunity for 12 months. Some vets in high risk areas would advise giving it every 6 months, but that's between you and your vet to decide.

It's tricky, isn't it? I hope you and your vet can come to a conclusion on how often to give the vaccine :)
 
lizziesos999 said:
I took my doe, Clover to the vet today for her Filavac booster. I discussed the timing with her and was told if she goes outside at all it needs to be given every 6 months. She said maybe a strictly indoor rabbit would be ok with an annual dose. She gave me the information sheet that comes with the vaccine and it clearly states annual, but she said in England it needs to be 6 months. So 'at risk' can mean going in the garden? Also, the advice sheet stated it covered RHD1 and 2 which is what I read online, but I have also been told by a vet that it doesn't. There is just so much varying advice given about this subject. Hence the need for a rabbit savvy vet, I suppose.


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One of the RWAF Veterinary advisors, Richard Saunders, was instrumental in working to get a vaccine against RHD2 licenenced. He has provided a lot of information here :

https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/rabbit-health/rabbit-vhd/

https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/rabbit-health/further-reading/rvhd-further-reading/

These are the Data Sheets for the the two RHD2 vaccines currently available

Filavac covers both RHD1 and RHD2. It has a proven duration of immunity of 12 months BUT in very high risk areas and based on an individual Vet's own clinical judgement in a specific case it can be given every 6 months

https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/rabbit-health/further-reading/rvhd-further-reading/


Eravac only covers for RHD2 and it has a proven 9 months duration of immunity

https://www.harcourt-brown.co.uk/media/documents/eravac-uk-datasheet-0.pdf


It is still very important to vaccinate Rabbits against Myxomatosis and the Vaccine for this is the Nobivac Myxo-RHD vaccine. This covers for Myxomatosis and RHD1

http://www.noahcompendium.co.uk/?id=-455496


There are some more Q+As about vaccines on the website of Frances Harcourt-Brown, a now retired very Rabbit Savvy Vet

https://www.harcourt-brown.co.uk/owners/frequently-asked-questions/FAQRHD


Finally, (sorry, I do tend to ramble on a bit :oops:) the RWAF also provides information about finding a Rabbit savvy Vet ( I am NOT suggesting that the Vet is not Rabbit Savvy), but you may want to take a look at the info anyway

https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/rabbit-care-advice/rabbit-friendly-vets/
 
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Jack's-Jane said:
A very nasty case of 7 deaths due to suspected RHD2 in Romsey, Hampshire yesterday (4th September):cry: 6 dying within 24 hours of each other :cry:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/174...dzgcP7WuIIWFZVqPVNNVceXALbv6UKad7qQ5nugrGkATQ

These Rabbits were not vaccinated
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Romsey, my way. :(

I get really really paniced about this. My bunnies are vaccinated once yearly. My concern is that we go for a walk and our shoes come off at the back door. Or doggy goes in all these fields then walks around my house. I have a cream carpet in lounge and stairs/hallway up to bunny room which I obviously can't mop with my Anigene Hdl4v like I do the kitchen and bathroom. I also forage. Also worried that maple doesn't have immunity as the rest of my bunnies as assuming she's only ever been vaccinated once by myself. (By once I mean once for filvac and once for nobivac)

How does everyone with dogs cope and feel about this?

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Jack's-Jane said:
One of the RWAF Veterinary advisors, Richard Saunders, was instrumental in working to get a vaccine against RHD2 licenenced. He has provided a lot of information here :

https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/rabbit-health/rabbit-vhd/

https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/rabbit-health/further-reading/rvhd-further-reading/

These are the Data Sheets for the the two RHD2 vaccines currently available

Filavac covers both RHD1 and RHD2. It has a proven duration of immunity of 12 months BUT in very high risk areas and based on an individual Vet's own clinical judgement in a specific case it can be given every 6 months

https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/rabbit-health/further-reading/rvhd-further-reading/


Eravac only covers for RHD2 and it has a proven 9 months duration of immunity

https://www.harcourt-brown.co.uk/media/documents/eravac-uk-datasheet-0.pdf


It is still very important to vaccinate Rabbits against Myxomatosis and the Vaccine for this is the Nobivac Myxo-RHD vaccine. This covers for Myxomatosis and RHD1

http://www.noahcompendium.co.uk/?id=-455496


There are some more Q+As about vaccines on the website of Frances Harcourt-Brown, a now retired very Rabbit Savvy Vet

https://www.harcourt-brown.co.uk/owners/frequently-asked-questions/FAQRHD


Finally, (sorry, I do tend to ramble on a bit :oops:) the RWAF also provides information about finding a Rabbit savvy Vet ( I am NOT suggesting that the Vet is not Rabbit Savvy), but you may want to take a look at the info anyway

https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/rabbit-care-advice/rabbit-friendly-vets/
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:thumb:
 
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loobers25 said:
Romsey, my way. :(

I get really really paniced about this. My bunnies are vaccinated once yearly. My concern is that we go for a walk and our shoes come off at the back door. Or doggy goes in all these fields then walks around my house. I have a cream carpet in lounge and stairs/hallway up to bunny room which I obviously can't mop with my Anigene Hdl4v like I do the kitchen and bathroom. I also forage. Also worried that maple doesn't have immunity as the rest of my bunnies as assuming she's only ever been vaccinated once by myself. (By once I mean once for filvac and once for nobivac)

How does everyone with dogs cope and feel about this?

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I'm not sure that this means that Maple has less immunity than a rabbit who has had years of vaccinations. Perhaps someone can tell me if I'm wrong but I have always thought that each yearly vaccination for either Nobivac or Filavac is complete in itself. I can see why you should think this. It's the concept that a rabbit has an initial dose of vaccine and each year that is topped up with a booster, but I don't think it's designed to work like that.

When considering the risk of RHD, in my view all plant food can be a risk, including hay. I know the feeling though. I get it everytime I see a mozzie in the rabbit shed, or one buzzing around the head of one of my rabbits. We do what we can though and vaccination is the main part of that.
 
Jack's-Jane said:
Just to point out I Typo'd in my post, when refering to Eravac I originally typed 'RHD1' when I meant RHD2

Thanks for highlighting my error R :love:
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I did exactly the same thing on FB on the Myxomatosis page. Same as yourself, I suspect, I was so focused on the duration of immunity that the RHD1 just defaulted in my brain.

The thumbs up was more about the reliability of the links that you highlighted though, so I skim read what you had put.
 
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