Vaccine available for B.C. rabbits

[Catherine]

Quote:Knowing how virulent this virus is, and that it can be spread by other animals, including humans, I am rather shocked at New Zealand's approach! Not only is a mass rabbit cull deliberately releasing this virus inadvisable as we can't know how it will affect the food chain, or even perhaps evantually humans -but it is an act of intense cruelty.

It is all very well for the New Zealand authorities saying "make sure all your pet rabbits are vaccinated". But they cannot know how this virus might mutate, or affect other creatures!

I was busy thinking about the BC rabbits. I hadn't really thought about what New Zealand was planning to do. This is a very dangerous move. Once released there is no predicting what the virus will do.  It would disrupt the food chain. That is serious enough. Viruses mutate and there is no way to know what direction that will take.

In the 1960s a science fiction writer has the world as we know it get destroyed by the release of a virus to control the rabbits.
He was killed in a car accident, but I wonder what he would think if he saw someone considering actually releasing a virus.

At least the rabbits in BC will be safe.