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Subscribe and turn on notifications🔔 : https://buff.ly/3F6ZiLt | An Aussie vaccine that could save the country’s endangered koala population from the species’ biggest killer has been approved by regulators.

Recent chlamydia epidemics have devastated koala populations—contributing to around 50% of koala deaths.

Scientists from the University of the Sunshine Coast have spent the last decade developing the vaccine in an attempt to curb the spread of the disease.

Microbiologist Dr Peter Timms explained, “Some individual wild colonies, where infection rate can be as high as 70%, are edging closer to extinction every day.”

“It has been a long road… There’s been points along the pathway I think we nearly gave up [so] today’s a very exciting day.”

Now, with approval secured, Dr Timms hopes that major funding can lead to the jabs’ distribution to vet clinics, wildlife hospitals, and koalas in the wild.

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