Further reading

For this paper, it was impractical to cite every reference, but mentionneeds to be made about reliance made on the Diseases of domesticanimals in Australia written in five volumes by HR Seddon and firstpublished in 1953. The work undertaken by Seddon was monumental,as he gleaned a lot of material from colleagues across Australia and inthe process wrote an authoritative account of the knowledge of animaldiseases from settlement in 1788 to 1950. Other books that can berelied upon for information on CBPP are Clearing a Continent, thestory of the spread and eradication of CBPP and Beating the odds onthe eradication of bovine brucellosis and tuberculosis. The websites ofthe Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and For-estry and Animal Heath Australia provide a great deal of informationabout recent Australian livestock diseases, animal welfare and industrypractices.

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