New Zealand authorities are considering using a deadly virus to kill feral Australian possums in New Zealand.
Will this virus infect non-target animals and humans or find its way to the Australian mainland to kill a possible 95% of Australian possums?

• Wobbly possum disease isolated in New Zealand. NZ authorities are considering the use of deadly Wobbly Possum Disease as a biological control agent of Australian native possums in NZ.
  
• Promed Borna virus and Disease review
  
• Borna virus Information - Kagoshima University
  
• Borna Virus Information
  
• Borna virus article
  
• Newsday Borna virus article
  
• Borna Disease Virus
  
• Some information on Australian Leadbeater's possums
  
• Brush tailed possums
  
• Possum Information
  
• NZ Biocontrol Information
  
• NZ Biocontrol Information-vaccine contraception
  
• The only good possum is a dead possum? NZ
  
• Possum Conservation Information
  
  
  

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