Domestic European Rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus: A Super-Highway for the Spread of Emergent Viral Diseases to Other Lagomorphs?

IF 3.5 2区农林科学 Q2 INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI:10.1155/tbed/1129135

Elena Angulo, Juan Bárcena, Brian Cooke, Ramón C. Soriguer

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Abstract

We propose that the worldwide spread of several viral diseases in European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is facilitated by domestic rabbit meat production and associated international trade. This view is based on published records of the transfer of rabbit haemorrhagic disease viruses (RHDV/RHDV2) between countries and supported by data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS) correlating the amount of rabbit meat produced and the number of rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD) outbreaks reported. Although RHDV was mainly confined to European rabbits, outbreak reporting rose after RDHV2 emerged and spread into many other lagomorph species. More than 80 species of native lagomorphs are now at risk from the disease in countries reporting RHD outbreaks. Our findings have implications for the maintenance of both industrial-scale cuniculture and village-scale production to combat poverty, for the future use of viruses for the biological control of pest rabbits and the conservation of native lagomorphs. Greater awareness of the risks of virus transfer in both directions between domestic rabbits and wild lagomorphs is important for future management of domestic rabbits and the conservation of native lagomorphs.

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欧洲家兔：紧急病毒性疾病向其他兔类传播的高速公路？

我们认为，欧洲兔（Oryctolagus cuniculus）中几种病毒性疾病的全球传播是由国内兔肉生产和相关的国际贸易促成的。这一观点基于兔出血症病毒（RHDV/RHDV2）在国家间转移的公开记录，并得到粮食及农业组织（FAO）和世界动物卫生信息系统（WAHIS）有关兔肉产量与兔出血症（RHD）暴发报告数量的数据的支持。虽然rdhv主要局限于欧洲兔，但在RDHV2出现并传播到许多其他兔形动物物种后，疫情报告有所增加。在报告RHD暴发的国家，目前有80多种本地lagomorphs面临感染该病的风险。我们的研究结果对维持工业规模的养殖和村庄规模的生产以对抗贫困，对未来使用病毒对害虫兔子进行生物控制和保护本地lagomorphi具有重要意义。提高对家兔和野生lagomorphs之间病毒双向传播风险的认识，对未来家兔管理和本地lagomorphs保护具有重要意义。

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Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 农林科学-传染病学

CiteScore

8.90

自引率

9.30%

发文量

350

审稿时长

1 months

期刊介绍： Transboundary and Emerging Diseases brings together in one place the latest research on infectious diseases considered to hold the greatest economic threat to animals and humans worldwide. The journal provides a venue for global research on their diagnosis, prevention and management, and for papers on public health, pathogenesis, epidemiology, statistical modeling, diagnostics, biosecurity issues, genomics, vaccine development and rapid communication of new outbreaks. Papers should include timely research approaches using state-of-the-art technologies. The editors encourage papers adopting a science-based approach on socio-economic and environmental factors influencing the management of the bio-security threat posed by these diseases, including risk analysis and disease spread modeling. Preference will be given to communications focusing on novel science-based approaches to controlling transboundary and emerging diseases. The following topics are generally considered out-of-scope, but decisions are made on a case-by-case basis (for example, studies on cryptic wildlife populations, and those on potential species extinctions): Pathogen discovery: a common pathogen newly recognised in a specific country, or a new pathogen or genetic sequence for which there is little context about — or insights regarding — its emergence or spread. Prevalence estimation surveys and risk factor studies based on survey (rather than longitudinal) methodology, except when such studies are unique. Surveys of knowledge, attitudes and practices are within scope. Diagnostic test development if not accompanied by robust sensitivity and specificity estimation from field studies. Studies focused only on laboratory methods in which relevance to disease emergence and spread is not obvious or can not be inferred (“pure research” type studies). Narrative literature reviews which do not generate new knowledge. Systematic and scoping reviews, and meta-analyses are within scope.