The use of myxomatosis to
control the wild rabbit populations in Australia and Coll
Island (Scotland) is well known; this disease drastically
reduced their population density (Boag 1987). The clinical
forms of the HF are related to the degree of infection and their
effects on wild rabbit population are similar to those of the
myxomatosis. Martins (1993) reported that HF in 1990 wiped
out rabbit populations in most of Azores Archipelago islands.