{"id":707125,"date":"2026-07-23T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707125\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:36:09","slug":"record-myxomatosis-outbreak-hits-guernsey-rabbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707125\/","title":{"rendered":"Record myxomatosis outbreak hits Guernsey rabbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vets are also reporting a sharp increase in rabbits being brought in with suspected myxomatosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Senior veterinary nurse Sarah Ozanne, who works at Isabelle&#8217;s Vets, said about 45 rabbits were treated in one week, and the condition of some animals arriving for treatment had been distressing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re very, very underweight; very skinny. They&#8217;ve got their eyes sort of welded shut from all the discharge,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ozanne said myxomatosis only affected rabbits and hares and did not pose a risk to other pets, such as dogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, she warned domestic rabbits could also become infected, even if they were kept at home or in a private garden, as fleas and biting flies could carry the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vets are also reporting a sharp increase in rabbits being brought in with suspected myxomatosis. Senior veterinary nurse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-707125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}