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Rabbitpox
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<p>Rabbitpox is a disease of <a href="/facts/Rabbit/8jQGWcQD">rabbits</a> caused by a <a href="/facts/Virus/mf88Bcbl">virus</a> of the genus <i><a href="/facts/Orthopoxvirus/reuI6Iwt">Orthopoxvirus</a></i> in the family <i><a href="/facts/Poxviridae/L2oTmrnq">Poxviridae</a></i>, and closely related to <a href="/facts/Vaccinia_virus/jSgHWq2k">vaccinia virus</a>. Rabbitpox was first isolated at the <a href="/facts/Rockefeller_University/aKJwezNa">Rockefeller Institute</a> in <a href="/facts/New_York_City/YlyvFmVC">New York</a> in 1933, following a series of <a href="/facts/Epidemic/N7fM3HYd">epidemics</a> in the laboratory rabbits. It is an acute disease only known to infect laboratory rabbits as no cases have been reported in wild rabbits; it cannot infect humans. </p>