Hasenpest in Luxembourg: What does this mean for humans and pets?

On 24 March, a sick rabbit will be delivered at the Wëlldéier-Drop-Off in Junglinster and shortly afterwards will be taken to the wildlife care station in Düdelingen. The animal is apathetic, lies on the side and can almost no longer move, so that the competent veterinarian Louis Kox starts from a car accident. He is still trying to treat the convulsions, i.e. epilepsy-like twitches of the rabbit, but the animal succumbs to his disease. This is …

The hare plague called tularemia spreads in Hesse and Lower Saxony. Recently cases were known in the districts of Hameln-Pyrmont and Gifhorn in Lower Saxony as well as in Gießen in Hesse. The district of Holzminden also warns of the disease, which can also become dangerous for humans.