Myxomatosis
2008
Bartrip, P. W. J. (Peter W. J)
"Myxomatosis, a viral disease of the European wild rabbit, reached Britain in 1953. Within a year it had killed tens of millions of rabbits from Kent to the Shetlands." "This outbreak has hitherto attracted little historical attention. In the first book dedicated to this subject, Peter Bartrip examines how the disease reached and spread in the UK. He argues that it was not the government who was responsible, as many thought at the time, and identifies the individual who may have deliberately brought myxomatosis from France. The agricultural significance of this disease raises topical and controversial issues of great importance if we are to learn lessons from more recent animal disease epidemics such as foot and mouth, BSE and H[subscript 5]N[subscript 1] avian influenza."--BOOK JACKET.
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