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Australia's Rabbit Plague

In the 1950s Australia released the disease myxomatosis to kill off billions of rabbits which were destroying the countryside

For decades, Australia's countryside was ravaged by billions of rabbits. So in the 1950s, the government released the disease myxomatosis to kill off the rabbit plague. We hear from farmer, Bill McDonald, who remembers Australia's battle against the bunnies.

(Photo: Rabbits around a waterhole at the myxomatosis trial enclosure on Wardang Island in 1938. Credit: National Archives of Australia)

9 minutes

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Thu 27 Nov 2014 08:50GMT

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  • Thu 27 Nov 2014 08:50GMT

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