Long-term monitoring of disease impact: rabbit haemorrhagic disease as a biological control case study

摘要: In many countries throughout the world, resources available for disease surveillance are ever decreasing.1 This can lead to either a reduction in programmes, with an accompanying lack of preparedness, or never-ending search more efficient ways monitoring and deciding where money be best spent. In Australia, each state once had teams within veterinary, agricultural environmental research institutions involved monitoring, it is now increasingly case that only one two individual scientists veterinarians work conjunction inter-state international colleagues remain informed piece together epidemiological events. A recent example this study by Mutze others,2 summarised on p 574 week’s issue Vet Record , relation emergence spread rabbit haemorrhagic 2 (RHDV2) through population introduced wild European rabbits Australia. Although RHDV1 been released Australia biological control 1995, was 2015 discovered routine RHDV2 somehow entered despite relatively strict quarantine procedures killing near Canberra south-eastern Australia.3 The progress virus westward across has since …