Myxomatosis is not species specific. Myxomatosis jumped species from the native rabbits of the Americas into the European rabbit. Myxomatosis normally did not kill its original host - the native rabbits of the Americas. However, Myxomatosis "switched on" in the European rabbit to become a killer disease. Myxomatosis is carried by "biting and sucking insects". At the present time, there is no known cure for Myxomatosis. No widespread tests on human beings have been undertaken globally to prove that Myxomatosis has never infected/affected humans. In any case, nobody can predict what a deadly live virus of mammals will and will not choose to infect in the future. Recent reports of mosquito bites on humans coinciding with new strains of Myxomatosis infecting large numbers of rabbits in the same geographical areas are cause for concern in Western Australia. Many people have been complaining of bites and resultant rashes that won't clear up quickly and resultant rashes that are lasting for weeks. Some people have had to visit doctors and obtain special creams and antihistamines. No anti-body tests have been requested in any of the people I know who were thus afflicted so as usual, we just don't know how Myxomatosis or RCD/RHD may be infecting humans in Australia where both diseases are deliberately spread.

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