Koalas under threat from chlamydia
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdnkdg1l8do

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(Source: Tiffanie Turnbull / Above article)

On the table, unconscious and stretched out on a pillow, Joe Mangy looks deceptively peaceful. The koala's watery, red-rimmed eyes are the only sign of the disease at war with his body.

Tubes snarl out of a mask covering his face as a vet tech listens to his chest with a stethoscope. He is not healing as well as they had hoped.

Eight days earlier, Joe Mangy – who is about two years old – was found wandering in the middle of a suburban road. Dazed and confused, eyes nearly glued shut with mucus, he was rushed here, to the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary's hospital.

Enveloped by rainforest on Queensland's Gold Coast, the park is full of koalas like this.

Outside the clinic, in a "Koala Rehab Centre" faintly perfumed by eucalyptus leaves, is a three-year-old recovering from a hysterectomy. "It saved her life… but she can't reproduce," the head vet Michael Payne says.



Sad to see... and apparently, it's not a new problem: it was being reported as far back as 2013. But it seems a solution hasn't been found yet :( .

Fortunately, a vaccine is in the pipeline... let's hope it can be finished and deployed before it's too late!
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