Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2021)

Outbreak of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 Infections, Ghana

  • Aruna Ambagala,
  • Patrick Ababio,
  • Lindsey Lamboo,
  • Melissa Goolia,
  • Oliver Lung,
  • Yohannes Berhane,
  • Theophilus Odoom

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2707.210005
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 7
pp. 1999 – 2002

Abstract

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In September 2019, high mortality in commercial rabbits was reported in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus 2 phylogenetically related to isolates from 2015–2017 outbreaks in the Netherlands was confirmed as the causative agent. The virus has not yet been detected in native rabbits in Ghana.

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