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From: Hank Shiffman 

    Date: 10 Feb 85 23:31:46 PST (Sun)
    From: Jerry Sweet 

    Read this many many years ago, but can't remember the author or
    title.  A truly demented SF novel.  Ranks right up there with Age of
    the Pussyfoot.  Here goes.

    A mad scientist invents a STD that eliminates aggression and warlike
    tendencies in humans. His two idealistic lab assistants happily
    spread it, targeting politicians in particular.  Humanity, it seems,
    has a rosy future.  However, not long after the start of a major
    undiscovered epidemic of this disease, packs of killer rabbits start
    roaming the English countryside, tearing up whoever they find.  Far
    from being rabid, it turns out, these rabbits have this new disease.
    (I refuse to speculate on how they got it.)  Yes, it seems that the
    mad scientist was really certifiable, and this disease of his merely
    represses aggression for a while, then brings it out all at once.
    Humanity, it seems, has a very short, nasty future ahead of it.

    Anyone recognize it?

The title is "Kronk".  I read it a bunch of years ago in a British
edition.  Someone did a synopsis of this story here a few months ago.