COCCIDIAN CATARRH IN RABBITS.
Coccidia in rabbit’s nose, etc., inflammation, fatality. Treatment, sulphur dioxide.
Zurn describes a contagious catarrh of rabbits caused by the presence in the mucosa of the nose, pharynx, Eustachian tubes and middle ears of myriads of coccidia. They create acute irritation and prove fatal in many cases. Embedded in the mucosa they are difficult to reach with medicinal agents, yet the free parasites may be destroyed by frequent fumigations with sulphurous acid, or by spraying or injecting the nose with its solution.