myxomatosis

[ UK /mˌa‍ɪksəmɐtˈə‍ʊsɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a viral disease (usually fatal) of rabbits
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How To Use myxomatosis In A Sentence

  • He only ever caught one blind old rabbit its eyes clouded over with myxomatosis.
  • 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. Virologist Helped Eradicate Smallpox
  • It worked well with myxomatosis on rabbits, and cactoblastis on prickly pears.
  • It seemed only a matter of time before the ‘grim’ disease of myxomatosis struck Craven.
  • The outbreak of myxomatosis was in full swing after arriving in Craven.
  • A new disease usually runs rampant because human beings have introduced it inadvertently — or, in the case of the rabbit disease myxomatosis, deliberately. Our Unwitting Germ Warfare on Animals
  • The effect of myxomatosis spread far beyond the rabbit.
  • We know that germs develop an immunity to antibiotics, insects develop resistance to insecticides, rabbits develop resistance to myxomatosis.
  • Larkin's poem was first published in 1954, the year after Sage recalls myxomatosis first appearing in Hanmer. The Woman Who Did
  • 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
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