| detection of the new emerging rabbit haemorrhagic disease type 2 virus (rhdv2) in sicily from rabbit (oryctolagus cuniculus) and italian hare (lepus corsicanus). | rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (rhdv), a member of the genus lagovirus, causes rabbit haemorrhagic disease (rhd), a fatal hepatitis of rabbits, not previously reported in hares. recently, a new rhdv-related virus emerged, called rhdv2. this lagovirus can cause rhd in rabbits and disease and mortality in lepus capensis (cape hare). here we describe a case of rhdv2 infection in another hare species, lepus corsicanus, during a concurrent rhd outbreak in a group of wild rabbits. the same rhdv2 st ... | 2014 | 25458493 |