Fatal rabbit disease moves into Utah’s wild population

A highly contagious and fatal disease — found last month in a domestic rabbit — now has been detected in Utah’s wild rabbit population.A case of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease — or RHDV2 — was confirmed on July 21 in Wayne County, after some dead wild cottontail rabbits were found in the Teasdale area and then sent to a lab for testing, officials with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources said this week in a news release.While people, dogs and other animals are not su