myxomatosis

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By the 1970s, some 130,000 rabbits were causing so much damage that the notorious disease myxomatosis was the latest foreign body introduced to Macquarie, which took the rabbit population down to under 20,000 within a decade.

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  1. noun A highly infectious, usually fatal disease of rabbits that is caused by a pox virus and is characterized by many skin tumors similar to myxomas.
  2. noun A condition characterized by the growth of many myxomas.

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  • In 1950, the government sanctioned the release of the myxomatosis disease and cut the population to 100 million, but by 1991, genetic resistance had rebuilt the population to as much as 300 million, prompting a second disease, the calicivirus, to be released. —  Environment news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • Sounds as appealing as myxomatosis rabbit-ridden stew for dinner. —  Indymedia Ireland
  • Initially, myxomatosis caused enormous reductions in rabbit numbers.
  • In arid areas, where mosquitoes cannot survive, myxomatosis did not spread well.
  • However, like myxomatosis, its efficacy varied throughout Australia.
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