The 1950s virus experiment that was supposed to end a rabbit plague: What scientists didn’t expect was the virus refusing to ‘die’

Seventy years can feel like a long enough stretch for an ecological experiment to settle into history, but the story of rabbits and a deliberately released virus keeps refusing to stay still. What began as a blunt attempt to rein in an exploding pest population has turned into something messier, almost reluctant in its persistence.

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