Rabbit Green Syndrome

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The rabbitpox virus, also known as Green Rabbit Syndrome, is a disease of rabbits caused by a virus of the genus Orthopoxvirus and the family Poxviridae.[1] Rabbitpox was first isolated at the Rockefeller Institute in New York in 1933, following a series of epidemics in the laboratory rabbits.[2]

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  1. ^ Medical Dictionary - 'rabbitpox virus'. mediLexicon. Retrieved on 2007-04-03.
  2. ^ C. Upton (2005-08-12). "Complete coding sequences of the rabbitpox virus genome". Journal of General Virology 86: 2969–2977. doi:10.1099/vir.0.81331-0.