Xref: utzoo sci.bio:1276 sci.misc:1862 misc.consumers.house:2600 rec.gardens:959 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!prl From: prl@ethz.UUCP (Peter Lamb) Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc,misc.consumers.house,rec.gardens Subject: Re: Bug zappers Message-ID: <477@ethz.UUCP> Date: 24 Jun 88 19:11:14 GMT References: <1737@homxb.UUCP> <1020@ih1ap.ATT.COM> <3131@ut-emx.UUCP> <1029@mit-caf.UUCP> <2413@ll1a.UUCP> Reply-To: prl@bernina.UUCP (Peter Lamb) Organization: ETH Zuerich, Switzerland Lines: 23 In article <2413@ll1a.UUCP> cej@ll1a.UUCP (Jones) writes: > However, the article also mentioned a *big* problem with >rabies infected vampire bats infecting cattle in Australia, and ... > Can anybody from "down-under" give us the latest "low-down" >on the problems you are having? As far as I know, Australia is free of rabies. I was on a visit home there just 2 weeks ago, and there was no news I heard about Australia having rabies reported (it would be *big* news). This is one of the reasons for quite stringent import restrictions on animals and animal products, and why your aircraft is sprayed inside with a fairly vile insecticide before you land there. I don't know of `vampire bats' there either. I thought they were South American. I could be wrong on this, I'm an engineer, not a biologist. Could the article have meant Argentina? -- Peter Lamb uucp: seismo!mcvax!ethz!prl eunet: prl@ethz.uucp Tel: +411 256 5241 Institute for Integrated Systems ETH-Zentrum, 8092 Zurich