Since 1988 we have been working with R.H.D.V. and we developed an inactivated vaccine to solve the R.H.D.V. problem in the rabbitries.
The security measures to manufacture the vaccine are up to standards and the people working on it are experts who work very carefully in order to avoid unnecessary contacts with the virus before inactivation. So far, we have detected no disease or troubles in these people including myself, who several times have manipulated samples both at field and laboratory level.
But this is not enough to establish that this virus could not replicate in humans, because nobody until now has tried it, so that items 1 and 2 of your fax are unknown with real certainty.
Let me tell you that we do not agree with any biological war using live virulent virus, because we suffer from it since 1957 when Armand Dellile in France spread the Sanarelli virus to control wild rabbits. Subsequently the disease spread all over Europe.
Sincerely,
Albert Pages Mante
Poultry and Rabbit Department