One point to keep in mind...this is a suspected
outbreak, not a confirmed one. I've been following
the local rumor mill (and know the lady who sent it
to meatrabbits) and checking things out, and as far
as I know, there's nothing definite (like a sure necropsy)
yet.

It's also been hot enough here to have animals die from
heat stress.

Rumor mill stuff, though, apparently a rumor made it
onto Showbunny that an outbreak of myxomatosis happened
at Multnomah County...I was the superintendent of the 4-H
show, and I can firmly say that no such thing happened. We
were releasing animals early due to heat stress and other weirdnesses
(such as a drunk grabbing the Best of Show 4-H rabbit out of
the cage and walking around with it on Thursday night, Thursday
night seems to bring out all the crazies, the kid wanted to take her
rabbit home after that and I didn't blame her), but no actual disease.
I was being pretty generous about it because we were cooping the
rabbits under a tent on blacktop, and one person's thermometer was
registering in the 90s on top of the cages....

So let's not panic...yet, but get suspicious deaths necropsied so that
if there *is* an outbreak for sure, then the State Vet can take action.

Joyce