Primary Recipient

OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$146,200.00

Award Date

6/04/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

A herpesvirus, referred to as LHV-4, was found to be associated with a disease affecting over half of the 55 rabbits on a farm near Anchorage, Alaska. About 28 percent of the affected animals died or were euthanized because of the severity of the illness.