Risks of Myximatosis

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I've been trying to find out what if any risk myximatosis may pose to birds of prey and I am totally unable to find anything to either confirm or disprove if their are susceptable.
I'm sure most people will tell me Bird Flu is far more of a concern, but this is something I'd like to know about for sure.
Done a fair bit of digging around Tinterweb and there's actually very little good information around about the disease at all.
I became curious about this after the landowner of one of my permissions rang to say they had found a dead rabbit which appears to have myximatosis.
I've not flown on the farm since and I'm hoping it would have died out by next season although I suspect it will be a rather barren field next season.

If anyone knows could the answer the following questions?
1. Does Myximatosis pose any particular risk to birds of prey (either through contracting the disease of by acting as a carrier to new locations)
2. If the bird is able to contract the disease, are there any known treatments or does it have a similar outcome as in Rabbits.
Any advice, answers or links to more information would be gratefully received.

[HawkMan69UK]

mixi cant be transfered to bops just doesent look very nice if they catch one with the later stages of it

[AngelJakki]

HI, If it helps any here is another post about it.
http://www.falconryforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=9809&highlight=mixxy

[StormRider]

There is no risk whatsoever to you or your bird. My mate still eats his rabbits regardless, curries and all that. The bloke who invented the disease in Australia proved the non transference theory by injecting himself with the virus. It had no effect.
STU

[Dave G]

bop cannot get mixy as the buzzards love this time of year as easy prey for them to feast on the mixy rabbit,and i think most of our birds have caught a mixy rabbit or 2 without any probs just not a nice site :(

[ParaButeo78]

No risk of transmission to you, your bird, dog or ferret.
Myxomatosis is a disease that affects rabbits, both wild and domestic.
Even hares don't get the disease.

[Puddle]

I've been trying to find out what if any risk myximatosis may pose to birds of prey and I am totally unable to find anything to either confirm or disprove if their are susceptable.
I'm sure most people will tell me Bird Flu is far more of a concern, but this is something I'd like to know about for sure.
Done a fair bit of digging around Tinterweb and there's actually very little good information around about the disease at all.
I became curious about this after the landowner of one of my permissions rang to say they had found a dead rabbit which appears to have myximatosis.
I've not flown on the farm since and I'm hoping it would have died out by next season although I suspect it will be a rather barren field next season.

If anyone knows could the answer the following questions?
1. Does Myximatosis pose any particular risk to birds of prey (either through contracting the disease of by acting as a carrier to new locations)
2. If the bird is able to contract the disease, are there any known treatments or does it have a similar outcome as in Rabbits.
Any advice, answers or links to more information would be gratefully received.

Its the same around my way but with partridges they seem to had microplasma or synasiteas which makes there heads blow up and go all manky

[Renton]

No risk of transmission to you, your bird, dog or ferret.
Myxomatosis is a disease that affects rabbits, both wild and domestic.
Even hares don't get the disease.

Spot on. :lol:

For an academic paper on the disease try: http://www.burrill.demon.co.uk/meddoc/myxo.html

[Renton]

Alternatively, a less academic approach at: http://www.parkvets.com/clientinformation-myxoinfo.html