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Can VHD be used as a method of controlling rabbits in the wild?

April 26, 2017method rabbits Used vhd WILD

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Can VHD be used as a method of controlling rabbits in the wild?

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In 1996, the Australian government declared VHD, which it dubbed Rabbit Calcivirus Disease (RCD), to be a legal biological control agent for feral rabbits. It is the only county in the world to do so, although farmers in New Zealand are thought to have illegally imported the virus to eradicate the wild rabbit population.