Description: Myxomatosis, a viral disease of the European wild rabbit, reached Britain in Within a year it had killed tens of millions of rabbits from Kent to the Winston Churchill, the Archbishop of York and members of the public raised on the tales of Beatrix Potter were appalled, deploring the loss of a cheap nutritional Many farmers, on the other hand, welcomed the demise of a serious agricultural pest and deliberately spread the The government resisted appeals to legislate against the deliberate spreading of the disease until passing the 1954 Pests Act, as a result by 1955 some 90% of the UK rabbit population had been wiped myxomatosis outbreak has hitherto attracted little historical In the first book dedicated to this subject, Peter Bartrip examines how the disease reached and spread in the He argues that it was not the government who was responsible, as many thought at the time, but for the first time Bartrip names the individual who may have deliberately brought myxomatosis from Bartrip tracks the response...

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