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What's the deciding factor on whether a bun should take RHDV2 vaccine?

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I'm reading the latest update, we have 3 case in the city, and the last case is back in Oct. 2022. Wild rabbit does have it, again, long time ago, but wild rabbit has no relation to my buns at home. They do go outside until the sun in the summer (mid May to Sept), but the rest of the year, stuck indoor.
 
RHD is deadly. I woudn't take any chances. Being indoors isn't really a defence. Those are only the identified cases - there are likely to be many more which are un-identified sudden deaths.
 
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RHD is deadly. I woudn't take any chances. Being indoors isn't really a defence. Those are only the identified cases - there are likely to be many more which are un-identified sudden deaths.
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Agree. RHD Vaccination is essential for both indoor and outdoor Rabbits. The virus can be transmitted via hay, it makes no difference if one’s Rabbit is indoors in the middle of a big city. There is still a risk of RHD.

https://www.harcourt-brown.co.uk/ar...ce-of-infection-and-transmission-of-rhd-virus

Personally I would never be able to live with the guilt if I didn’t vaccinate my Rabbits and had a RHD outbreak. Whilst the vaccine cannot offer 100% protection it is the only way we can do anything to try to minimise the risk to our Rabbits.

Not that long ago I was made aware of a person local to me who lost all three of her indoor unvaccinated Rabbits to RHD. Sadly her Vet had told her vaccinations are not that important for indoor Rabbits. She learned the hard way that, that statement is not true :(
 
what does the vaccine do to a rabbit on the positive side and is there any negative side, negative side effect, etc.?

also, if we haven't seen a known case for 6 mth., this city is not like UK, RHD doesn't seem popular, as this city is -20 deg. C in the winter, all disease should dies outside, so I wonder if there is a likely chance or 1 of those odd chance?

also, how many yr. has this disease been around? as locally, we only know about it last year
 
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If there has been confirmed RHD in your area previously, it's likely to take off again quite quickly once the weather warms up a bit and the wild rabbits start breeding, so there will be a large vulnerable population at that point. I wouldn't take the risk if there was the option of a vaccine. Unvaccinated rabbits won't survive if they catch it, and you probably won't know they have it unless it's confirmed at autopsy.
 
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