THE ROLE OF WILD ANIMALS IN THE SPREAD OF EXOTIC DISEASES IN AUSTRALIA |
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| Authors: | M. D. Murray B.Sc. F.R.C.V.S., W. A. Snowdon B.V.Sc.,&dagger |
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| Affiliation: | *CSIRO Division of Animal Health, McMaster Laboratory, Private Bag No. 1, Glebe, New South Wales 2037.;†CSIRO Division of Animal Health, Animal Health Research Laboratory, Private Bag No. 1, Parkville, Victoria 3052. |
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| Abstract: | The distributions of the following feral animals are given -- cattle, buffalo, pig, goat, deer, camel, horse, donkey, fox, dog and cat -- and the native dingo. The possible role these and the native rodents, marsupials and monotremes would play should an exotic disease of livestock enter Australia is discussed. It is considered that feral animals would be important in creating foci from which the disease would spread. |
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