Rabbitpox is a disease of rabbits caused by a virus of the genus Orthopoxvirus in the family Poxviridae,[1] and closely related to vaccinia virus.[2] Rabbitpox was first isolated at the Rockefeller Institute in New York in 1933, following a series of epidemics in the laboratory rabbits.[3] It is an acute disease only known to infect laboratory rabbits as no cases have been reported in wild rabbits; it cannot infect humans.[4]
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