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ON Wardang Island, which lies to the west of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, a field test is now in progress of the virus of myxomatosis, as an agent in reducing rabbit population. The marked specificity of thedisease to the European wild rabbit (Oryctolagus) and its retention of virulence after passage through many hosts make it well worth trial in a country where rabbits constitute a pest ever-present, though varying in intensity. The test is on a small infested area of some ninety acres under strictly controlled conditions.
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Rabbit Control in Australia. Nature 141, 682 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141682e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141682e0