myxomatosis

• “Larkin's poem was first published in 1954, the year after Sage recalls myxomatosis first appearing in Hanmer.”

  The Woman Who Did

• “But even if everybody in the country had eaten rabbit three times a day it wouldn't have made a dent in the rabbit population, which went on increasing until a specifically anti-rabbit disease called myxomatosis was let loose”

  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition

• “Buy weapon upgrades, structure upgrades and even spread myxomatosis!”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “A new disease usually runs rampant because human beings have introduced it inadvertently — or, in the case of the rabbit disease myxomatosis, deliberately.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Our Unwitting Germ Warfare on Animals

• “In Britain, the large blue ultimately became extinct when traditional grazing ceased and myxomatosis killed off rabbits that once helped keep the grass short on the warm meadows favoured by the ants and the butterfly.”

  The Guardian: Large blue butterfly moves to Cotswolds

• “But with his luck, any such rabbit would probably be struck down with myxomatosis.”

  Archive 2008-05-01

• “With the Nova bunny finally succumbing to myxomatosis last year, there has been a good number of people with nowhere to learn English.”

  Second Life’s name familiar to many, gameplay a stranger to most Japanese

• “His studies on myxomatosis, which he helped introduce to invasive rabbit populations, proved groundbreaking for understanding how a virus can change to become less virulent, while infected populations can evolve immunities.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Virologist Helped Eradicate Smallpox

• “One of the most vivid memories of those days is the year that the government introduced the hideous disease myxomatosis to control a plague of rabbits on the Sussex Downs.”

  Fictionaut: ɘloЯ

• “And I can't get over the one with the bleeding eye, it looks like it has myxomatosis ...”

  An Easterly Wind is Blowing

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