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.