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Australia's war against rabbits : the story of rabbit haemorrhagic disease /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooke, Brian (Brian D.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2014.
Subjects:
Rabbits > Biological control > Australia.
Rabbits > Control > Australia.
Hemorrhagic diseases > Susceptibility.
Rabbits > Diseases.
Hemorrhagic Disease Virus, Rabbit.
Rabbits.
Animal Diseases.
Australia.
Table of Contents:
  • Almería awakening
  • The Coffee Brothers
  • A new disease
  • Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus
  • The European rabbit
  • Australia's worst Christmas present
  • VIP fleas
  • El Pulguero
  • Australia's ecological impact of RHD in Europe
  • The Zaragoza Vet School
  • Introduction of RHDV to Australia
  • Round three to the virus
  • Reconstructing the great escape
  • Epidemiology in the big paddock
  • Enter the commentators
  • Aotearoa - Land of the Long White Cloud
  • Rabbit busters
  • Ecological effects of RHD in Australia and New Zealand
  • Blood groups and rabbit control?
  • Discovering kindred
  • A steadily changing virus
  • A dissection of uncertainties
  • A surgery of suppositions
  • Modelling hypotheticals
  • Genetically modified viruses - international issues
  • Impediments to rabbit control
  • The dinner party
  • Hunter and farmer
  • Future gazing
  • Epilogue