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A deadly virus is spreading across the southwestern United States and killing wild rabbits on this continent for the first time, wildlife officials say. It’s a strain of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease, and it’s recently appeared in pockets of the Western US. If it continues to spread unchecked, it could harm all dozen-plus species of rabbits in the US and the …

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