As It Happens6:01Scientists are vaccinating wild koalas against chlamydia
Scientists are trying to save koalas from the disease that’s making their lives miserable and threatening the very survival of their species.
Researchers in Australia have developed a chlamydia vaccine specifically geared to the beloved marsupials, and they’re hoping it will help stop the sexually transmitted disease’s rampant spread.
In an ambitious new field trial, which began in March, they’re administering the vaccine to wild koalas in the state of New South Wales.
“Koalas are an iconic Australian species,” Samuel Phillips, a molecular biologist at the University of the Sunshine Coast who helped to develop
