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Med Hist. 2003 July; 47(3): 314–331.
PMCID: PMC1044631
To kill or not to kill: the eradication of contagious bovine pleuro-pneumonia in western Europe.
John Fisher
School of Policy, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales 2308, Australia.
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