Red Alert- stop legalisation of deadly virus of mammals on food baits - Australia

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Urgent: Stop the legalization of incurable hemorrhagic disease on food

baits to kill animals in Australia

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Please send an email to the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary

Medicines Authority

(previously known as the NRA in Australia until this month 3/03) asking

them to stop the registration of deadly hemorrhagic disease on food

baits.

 

This is an extremely urgent matter and may save the lives of many

species.

 

If the APVMA approves these RHD food baits the future effects on many

animal species including humans cannot be predicted.

 

The APVMA has been warned by Dr David Matson who is a Professor and

a US doctor of human health who originally completed his

PhD in virology and Dr Alvin Smith who is a world expert on

caliciviruses

not to spread RHD (Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease) on food baits in

Australia.

Professor Leo Jeffcott of Cambridge University UK as well other

scientists have also

said that spreading deadly diseases is not advisable.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~rabbit/sci.htm

 

The APVMA have said the benefits of spreading the deadly hemorrhagic

disease

(reducing the number of wild rabbits) outweigh the dangers that we all

face.

 

This is exactly the political rhetoric given by the UK Government years

ago that Mad Cow Disease would not infect humans.

 

The APVMA are wrong. RHD escaped containment in 1995 and has spread

among

wild rabbits in Australia. No monitoring of human health is continuing

here

(and experts say we should be especially monitoring un-specified

hepatitis and other illness of unknown origins in humans in Australia).

 

I have undertaken FOI requests for a period of about 7 years and I am

absolutely

sure that the consideration process for RHD baits is not being

undertaken

in a fair and reasonable manner.

 

Many emails sent to the APVMA (previously the NRA) from activists from

around the world Including the USA and Australia opposing the RHD food

baits can't be located by the NRA in their correspondence files. Yet

such emailed submissions were important

in the consideration process of whether or not to legalise RHD food

baits.

 

If you email the APVMA please cc me a copy of your email to

rabbit

 

A sample letter opposing the RHD food baits in Australia is at

http://members.iinet.net.au/~rabbit/protester.htm

or

http://www.iinet.net.au/~rabbit/protester.htm

 

The Australian authorities can't promise RHD will not mutate and cause

illness

in other species of kill other species. Please help stop the spread

of this deadly incurable hemorrhagic virus of mammals now.

 

Marguerite

Rabbit Information Service

http://www.iinet.net.au/~rabbit