| 11. | In pet rabbits, myxomatosis can be misdiagnosed as pasteurellosis, a bacterial infection which can be treated with antibiotics.
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| 12. | The rabbits rapidly multiplied before numbers were reduced to about 10, 000 in the early 1980s when myxomatosis was introduced.
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| 13. | When the disease myxomatosis arrived in Britain, during 1953 from France, the mainland population of rabbits was quickly decimated.
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| 14. | One situation that illustrates this preference well was the outbreak of the myxomatosis virus in rabbits in Britain in the 1950s.
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| 15. | Another example is Myxomatosis which is a disease that was introduced in Australia to try to control the introduced rabbit population.
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| 16. | The virus causes a benign cutaneous fibroma in its hosts, but it causes the lethal disease myxomatosis, in European rabbits.
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| 17. | Supporters of the calicivirus also point out that the previous virus, myxomatosis, took up to two weeks to kill a rabbit.
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| 18. | Rabbits remained on Woody Island until 1952 when myxomatosis was carried to the island via mosquitoes and the rabbit population was killed off.
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| 19. | In Europe, where rabbits are farmed on a large scale, they are protected against myxomatosis and calicivirus with a genetically modified virus.
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| 20. | In January 1981, Michael Parkinson said that " Barnsley Grammar School was to his education what myxomatosis was to rabbits ".
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