The outbreak of rabbit hemorrhagic virus type 2 in the interior of China may be related to imported semen

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Dear Editor,Rabbit hemorrhagic disease(RHD)is a fatal infectious disease that primarily affects adult rabbits and causes great economic losses in the rabbit industry(Mitro and Krauss,1993).The causative pathogen is rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus(RHDV),which belongs to the genus Lagovirus and the family Calicivirus(Moussa et al.,1992).In 1984,RHDV was first documented in China.