The 1950s virus experiment that was supposed to end a rabbit plague: What scientists didn’t expect was the virus refusing to ‘die’
- Seventy years can feel like a long enough stretch for an ecological experiment to settle into history, but the story of rabbits and a deliberately released virus keeps refusing to stay still.
- What began as a blunt attempt to rein in an exploding pest population has turned into something messier, almost reluctant in its persistence.
- Science reported across Australia and parts of Europe, the European rabbit spread with little resistance, reshaping farmland and grazing land in ways that were hard to ignore.
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- Seventy years can feel like a long enough stretch for an ecological experiment to settle into history, but the story of rabbits and a deliberately released virus keeps refusing to stay still.
- What began as a blunt attempt to rein in an exploding pest population has turned into something messier, almost reluctant in its persistence.
- Science reported across Australia and parts of Europe, the European rabbit spread with little resistance, reshaping farmland and grazing land in ways that were hard to ignore.
Sources: Times of India