EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) – Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) officials are asking the public to help them track a disease that is deadly to wild and domestic rabbits.
In short, CPW is asking the community to contact them if they see groups of dead rabbits. The disease has been confirmed in El Paso County. If you notice a group of dead rabbits, please call the Colorado Springs office at (719)-227-5200.
You should not handle dead animals and you should not allow pets to contact or consume wildlife carcasses.
Feral and wild rabbits found recently at two areas in southeastern Colorado died from the highly contagious and deadly Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus type 2 (RHDV-2). The CPW wildlife health program confirmed that RHDV-2 killed at least 20 feral rabbits near Calhan, about 35 miles northeast of Colorado Springs in El Paso County. They were re