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Polygon to delineate the Disease Management Area (DMA), within which special regulations pertaining to wild rabbits apply, the Pennsylvania Game Commission announced today. If no additional cases are found within this DMA during the next five years following initial establishment of the DMA, the DMA will be removed.
Wild rabbits or hares may not be captured, transported, rehabilitated or released within the RHD-DMA in southwestern Pennsylvania, which extends about 5 miles in each direction from the site in Uniontown where RHD was detected. The feeding of wild rabbits also is prohibited within the RHD-DMA. Hunters harvesting rabbits within the DMA need to prepare them for consumption before removing them from the DMA. Only the meat, with or without bone, may be removed from the DMA. The removal of all other rabbit parts is prohibited.
The Game Commission’s establishment of the RHD-DMA follows the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture’s detection of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 (RHDV2) in two captive rabbits in a Fayette County facility. RHDV2 is a highly pathogenic and contagious virus affecting hares, rabbits and closely related species. It has caused mass die-offs in wild hare and rabbit populations elsewhere, but had not previously been detected in Pennsylvania. The RHD-DMA serves to protect Pennsylvania’s wild rabbits from the introduction and spread of RHDV2. |
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Polygon to delineate the Disease Management Area (DMA), within which special regulations pertaining to wild rabbits apply, the Pennsylvania Game Commission announced today. If no additional cases are found within this DMA during the next five years following initial establishment of the DMA, the DMA will be removed.
Wild rabbits or hares may not be captured, transported, rehabilitated or released within the RHD-DMA in southwestern Pennsylvania, which extends about 5 miles in each direction from the site in Uniontown where RHD was detected. The feeding of wild rabbits also is prohibited within the RHD-DMA. Hunters harvesting rabbits within the DMA need to prepare them for consumption before removing them from the DMA. Only the meat, with or without bone, may be removed from the DMA. The removal of all other rabbit parts is prohibited.
The Game Commission’s establishment of the RHD-DMA follows the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture’s detection of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 (RHDV2) in two captive rabbits in a Fayette County facility. RHDV2 is a highly pathogenic and contagious virus affecting hares, rabbits and closely related species. It has caused mass die-offs in wild hare and rabbit populations elsewhere, but had not previously been detected in Pennsylvania. The RHD-DMA serves to protect Pennsylvania’s wild rabbits from the introduction and spread of RHDV2. |
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