"So we have gone from hysteria, in which the release of this virus [RCD - See 1] was
about to let loose untold horrors on the vertebrate populations of
Australia, to a scenario in which the virus is not killing rabbits at a
rate sufficient to suit everyone. Sounds like what might have been
expected. Next we will hear of virus-resistance building in the Australian
and New Zealand rabbit populations
and then we will hear nothing while careers are built on studies of the
development of this resistance. As Yogi Berra said, "It's deja vu all over
again." (i.e., myxomatosis). -- Mod CHC" [Quote from Promed Moderator Charles H. Calisher, Ph.D.
Moderator, ProMED-mail, Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523]
[1] (RCD/Rabbit Heamorrhagic Disease
escaped from Wardang Island off the coast of South Australia in 1995 to become a new
and deadly killer of pet and wild rabbits in Australia)OTHER RHD QUOTES
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