tonyshuman
Well-Known Member
From what I have read, the disease can be spread by animal-to-animal contact, and also from fleas that pass between animals. The first signs of the disease appear 3 days after infection.
This is a very good article on myxi, but it does not mention any treatment options, other than keeping the bunny warm and comfortable, wiping off crusty lesions, and letting the virus run its course.
http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/Skin_diseases/Viral_diseases/myxomatosis.PDF
I hope that Lopsy does not have it. If he is developing symptoms only 34 hours after his first exposure to Morris (24 hrs in the house, 10 hrs since he left, as you mentioned above), it would not be myxi that had passed from Morris to him. There could be another source of myxi, such as the environment, if they were in the same environment 3 days prior to Morris showing his first symptoms. Does this make sense? What I'm trying to say is that the incubation period of myxi is 72hrs, so unless Morris and Lopsy were in the same place 72 hrs from when the first symptoms appeared, it's not myxi.
This is a very good article on myxi, but it does not mention any treatment options, other than keeping the bunny warm and comfortable, wiping off crusty lesions, and letting the virus run its course.
http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/Skin_diseases/Viral_diseases/myxomatosis.PDF
I hope that Lopsy does not have it. If he is developing symptoms only 34 hours after his first exposure to Morris (24 hrs in the house, 10 hrs since he left, as you mentioned above), it would not be myxi that had passed from Morris to him. There could be another source of myxi, such as the environment, if they were in the same environment 3 days prior to Morris showing his first symptoms. Does this make sense? What I'm trying to say is that the incubation period of myxi is 72hrs, so unless Morris and Lopsy were in the same place 72 hrs from when the first symptoms appeared, it's not myxi.
