article_snippet.sent: They are really abundant,' Graham Wilson, the manager of biosecurity at Greater Sydney Local Land Services, told Daily Mail Australia.
article_snippet.sent: It comes after over 30 government bodies scattered carrots laced with calicivirus around public areas in March . '
article_snippet.sent: Then, a deadly virus is produced in a laboratory with spreading agents and a deadly virus mixed with carrots - so that a deadly virus's coating the carrots - and then we take them and give them to councils to put out where them want.'
article_snippet.sent: In other parts of NSW a deadly virus spreads naturally, but you get bushland fragmented by houses and things in urban areas
article_snippet.sent: so we are just artificially introducing it into these places.'
article_snippet.sent: About 30 public land managers and councils in Sydney, across 160 localities, scattered the infected vegetable in public areas in March, but a second smaller scale program is likely to be implemented in May across 10 areas as well as the Central Coast. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Carrots laced with calicivirus are likely to be scattered in public spaces for a second time this year after an initial attempt failed in some areas .
  