On April 2, 2020, the Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (FADDL) confirmed RHDV2 in a wild black-tailed jackrabbit and wild cottontails in New Mexico, representing the first detection of this virus in wild rabbits in the United States. On April 8th, the laboratory confirmed that a cottontail and black-tailed jackrabbit had died from RHDV2 in Arizona.
https://agriculture.az.gov/news/press-release-rabbit-hemorrhagic-disease-arizona
National Wildlife Health Center Wildlife Health Bulletin 2020-04: https://www.usgs.gov/media/files/rabbit-hemorrhagic-disease-virus-2-confirmed-wild-rabbits-us
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Thank you for this info.
You are welcome!
it's in texas too: https://tpwd.texas.gov/newsmedia/releases/?req=20200421a
Thanks @puffin21! Here's a recent USGS National Wildlife Health Center update:
Continued Expansion of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 in North America and Additional Instructions Regarding Mortality Event Investigations
https://www.usgs.gov/media/files/continued-expansion-rabbit-hemorrhagic-disease-virus-2-na
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