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Before myxomatosis decimated feral rabbit populations, it was almost scrapped as a failure – ABC News
In 1950, after years of research, the much-vaunted solution to Australia’s rampant rabbit population was denounced as a failure. But two years later, half a billion rabbits were dead from the myxoma virus.
In August, 1950, the myxoma virus, the much-vaunted biological control weapon for Australia’s rampant rabbit population, was denounced as a failure.
Newspaper headlines proclaimed what many leading scientists had long opined: that the virus would never succeed.
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The general consensus in 1950 was that myxomatosis had failed to control rabbit populations.(Supplied)
Along the upper reaches of the Murray River, a team of Commonweal…
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