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Clearing a continent : the eradication of bovine pleuropneumonia from Australia / L.G. Newton and R. Norris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newton, L. G.
- Series:
- SCARM report ; no. 74.
- SCARM report ; 74
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cattle--Diseases.
- Cattle.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pleuropneumonia has had a long history in Australia. Clearing a Continent: The Eradication of Bovine Pleuropneumonia from Australia is an authoritative monograph on the history, spread, and final eradication of the disease.Based on an enormous amount of research and archive material, the text details the background of the first outbreak, the spread through the affected states, the battle for control, as well as the persistence of the disease in northern areas long after it had been brought under control in the south. There is also vital information on vaccination.This work is an important re
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editor's addendum; Chapter 1 - An overview of pleuropneumonia in Australia; Chapter 2
- Pleuropneumonia - the disease; Chapter 3 - Historical background to the disease, disease theories and inoculation; Claapter 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 lurther progress
- Chapter 10 - Research and war accelerate control (1930-1950)Chapter 11 - A decade of decisions (1950-1960); Chapter 12 - Eradicatiorl ( 1960s); Color Plates; Chapter 13 - The last remnants; Appendix - A chr-onological ovenlietv (1858-1973); Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613156563
- 9780643102460
- 0643102469
- 9781283156561
- 1283156563
- 9780643100794
- 0643100792
- OCLC:
- 700056143
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