B.C.’s chief veterinary officer says vaccines will be imported from France to curb an ongoing disease killing rabbits in the province

The B.C. government has issued warnings about rabbit haemorrhagic disease, a calicivirus that causes a fever, convulsions and kills a rabbit within 36 hours.

The virus has been found in dead rabbits in the areas of Nanaimo, Delta and most recently, the Comox Valley.

“It’s very lethal,” Jane Pritchard told All Points West host Jason D’Souza. “The populations that

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