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作者: vandas    時間: 2013-7-6 01:52 PM     標題: 美國棉尾兔患癌

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Is this the mythical 'jackelope'? Bunny filmed hopping around Minnesota yard with rare infection that makes rabbits grow horns

A video of a rabbit with a rare disease that causes gruesome-looking growths to protrude from its head has attracted over 200,000 views online in less than a week.

Dubbed ‘Frankenstein', the animal was first seen by the Boettcher family in Mankato, Minnesota, early last month, hopping around in their backyard.

The rabbit is infected by the cottontail papilloma virus (CRPV), also known as Shope papilloma virus, which causes tumours to grow on or near the animal's head.

The tumours can eventually become large enough to interfere with the rabbit's ability to eat, causing them to die of starvation.



Frankenstein: The rabbit has a disease that causes tumours to grow from his head


Monster rabbit: Frankenstein hides under the Boettcher family's truck in their backyard in Minnesota


The horn-like tumours growing from Frankenstein's head will eventually get so big that he will die from starvation

Gunnar Boettcher, 20, who studies Exercise Science and Studio Art at Gustavus Adolphus College, St Peter, Minnesota, tells the Mail Online he thinks the rabbit lives in their shed or wood pile.

‘Whenever we got close, he always ran away. We could never get a close look at him,’ says Gunnar.

The college student finally got close enough to take the first pictures and video of Frankenstein last week.

He and his younger brother, Zander, 15, made a ‘funny documentary' on the rabbit as it hopped through their garden.

In the video, Gunnar tells the viewers he has seen a 'monster rabbit'.

'It’s crazy, it’s got monster spikes sticking out of his head, we don’t know what this thing is capable of,' he says as the video zooms in on the rabbit.


Gunnar Boettcher, 20, tells viewers he is about to approach the 'monster rabbit' he has named Frankenstein

They uploaded the video to Facebook which spread like wildfire and has become ‘extremely popular’, according to Gunnar.

He says his friend Shane decided to put the photos of the rabbit on Reddit.com, titled ‘Rabbit living in my friend's backyard’.

The video has garnered 1,950 comments and 223,592 views after just five days online.

Rabbits who contract the virus have often been the source of stories about the mythical 'jackalope', which is a rabbit with the antlers of an antelope.

Storiesand illustrations of horned rabbits have appeared in scientific books dating back many years, such as the Tableau encyclopédique et méthodiquefrom 1789.


Myth: The jackalope, a rabbit with the antlers of an antelope, is a mythical creature inspired by rabbits with the disease

The Shope papillomavirus, which provided the first mammalian model of a cancer caused by a virus, takes its name from Dr Richard E. Shope, who discovered it in the 1930s.

His research has been very beneficial to humans and has been used as a model for human papillomaviruses, such as the HPV vaccine, which was developed based on and incorporating research done using the virus as a model.

It has also been used to investigate antiviral therapies.


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英國《每日郵報》報導,最近一段迅速竄紅網路的影片拍攝到了明尼蘇達州出現酷似傳說中『鹿角兔』的野兔。不過,專家解釋稱,這隻是普通的棉尾兔霍患一種名為『休普氏乳頭瘤』的癌症所造成的效果。

根據環球網報導,發現並錄下這隻野兔的波切爾稱,在自家後院見到這長相奇特的兔子時被嚇了一跳,他坦承這是他見過的最醜的兔子。之後他與朋友找到機會錄下這隻被命名為弗蘭肯斯坦的『鹿角兔』,並將影片放到網上,五天之內便獲得了20萬餘次的點擊量和上千條評論。

但其實這隻最近大紅的兔子與傳說中的『鹿角兔』並無關係,這隻兔子是感染了名為休普氏乳頭瘤的病毒,這種病毒會使兔子的臉部周圍長出類似鹿角的腫瘤,腫瘤會逐漸變大使兔子難以進食,最終導致其因飢餓死去。

作者: siuwah    時間: 2013-7-6 11:01 PM

睇真D張相好恐怖@@
作者: lly6620    時間: 2013-7-7 02:29 PM

原來是得了乳頭瘤的病毒,才會在臉上長出好多奇怪的東西
作者: 細細粒han    時間: 2013-7-7 08:51 PM

好慘呀隻兔仔:"(  陰公豬




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