According to NBC affiliate KUSA in Denver, rabbits have been observed in Colorado sprouting what appear to be tentacle-like growths from their heads.
In recent months, locals in Fort Collins, Colorado, like as Susan Mansfield, began noticing the animals with black quills around their mouths.
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Mansfield told KUSA, “It appears that there were black toothpicks or quills protruding all around his or her mouth.” I had assumed that he would go extinct over the winter, but he survived. It grew when he returned a second year.
According to another resident, the bunnies’ faces were covered in a growth that resembled a scabby snake.
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Colorado Parks & Wildlife’s northeast district public information officer, Kara Van Hoose, tells TODAY.com that the shope, or rabbit, papilloma virus, which causes wart-like protuberances on the rabbit’s face or head, is most likely the cause of the growths.
A Colorado Parks & Wildlife data sheet states that there is no cure for the illness, which resembles benign malignant cells.
According to Van Hoose, the growths don’t harm the rabbit until they appear on delicate spots like its lips or eyes.
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“The virus is mostly benign in rabbits,” according to Van Hoose. “The virus can be eliminated from the animal’s body by itself. Only if the growths are on the eyes or prevent the rabbit from eating would we be worried.
According to Van Hoose, the virus can be transferred from rabbit to rabbit and is disseminated by biting insects like fleas or ticks.
Although the illness is not known to spread to humans or other animals, Van Hoose advises people to give the animals room and refrain from touching or approaching them.
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