Bunnycide. PASTEUR AND THE RABBIT CONFERENCE. Sydney, April 26.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 259, 28 April 1888, Page 5

Bunnycide. PASTEUR AND THE RABBIT CONFERENCE. Sydney , April 26.

M I'astuu s lcpiesentatives have supplied the llabbit < 'ommission with hill p. i! ti< u'mi > <>1 iht' gient scientist - m'lu'hh 1 i'(»t iho extei urination 'if |he nest \r till 1 piopagatioil ot elmke'i i holem. 'I lu'\ st,ii<- tli t f Ifn \ oai » ago, while A!, r.isiciii was engaged in investigations into chicken cholera, he aecident■ilu die.>\oied that labbits weie r-pcci, ill\ susceptible to the malady. Id n. tin y sa\, impossible to give dnect pioot liiat human beings aie i ot susceptible to rhe disease : but no ca.se of the hum in subject being attacked is known, Men when diseased rhieken had been e.iten as food Tin' i noleia nncio'ne-, it is said, die \:\ :i tempi-i.uuie of ."> 1 degiees centiiii.idc.aud iheii xiinleiiLC is weakened l.\ exposiuc to the an. Kviieiience so hn had shown ih.it no mammals except i.ihluN wou'd be .ilVfcied In the disease, aril ihcie \\,is no dangei ot the disease being coipeyed to cows' milk, even if the animals ted on the poisoned food. huiing the iirs t few renioxes of the disease horn labbit to i.ibbit, the virulence of the disoider incieased, but it soon attained a maximum of intensity, when it became stationary. The disease was geneiallv more \irulent in labbit.s than fowls. The question^ -which were put to Al. Pastern's lepresentativtvs with reference to tlie experiment? conducted in France seemed to indi-ate a belief that the infectious natuie of the malad} in rabbits had not been sufficiently tested, the disease havini; npparently been gener:dl\ cominunictUed by diiect- poisoning in the cruise of those expeiiments. The ie)>iesentativcb of New South Wales. New- Zealand, and Victoria have been appointed a committee to conduct the experiments in this colony, und the Confeience lias adjourned pending the icport of this committee.