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Clearing a Continent
The Eradication of Bovine Pleuropneumonia from Australia
R. Norris and L.G. Newton
Hardback
September 2000
9780643065628
More details
- Publisher
CSIRO Publishing - Published
30th September 2000 - ISBN 9780643065628
- Language English
- Pages 310 pp.
- Size 6.25" x 9.75"
- Images color illus
$69.95
. . . an important resource not only as an historic record of one country’s battle with the disease but also supplies vital information on vaccination thus providing a reference for other countries throughout the world to gain a better understanding of the behaviour of the disease.
- , New Agriculturalist on-line
New Agriculturalist on-line, 2000
Contents
Chapter 1. An overview of pleuropneumonia in Australia
Chapter 2. Pleuropneumonia – the disease
Chapter 3. Historical background to the disease, disease theories and inoculation
Chapter 4. The first outbreak in Australia (1858-1860)
Chapter 5. Pleuro on the rampage (1860-1900)
Chapter 6. The Australian scene
Chapter 7. Learning to live with the disease (1860-1900)
Chapter 8. Beginning the fight for control (1901-1930)
Chapter 9. Research – the key to further progress
Chapter 10. Research and war accelerate control (1930-1950)
Chapter 11. A decade of decisions (1950-1960)
Chapter 12. Eradication (1960s)
Chapter 13. The last remnants
Appendix - A chronological overview (1858-1973)
Index