Experts estimate over half of New South Wales and Queensland's koala populations are sick with chlamydia. 9News
A new vaccine could help curb one of the country's biggest koala killers, with experts hoping the injection could protect the species from future extinction.
Dr Michael Pyne from Currumbin Wildlife Hospital said of 500 koalas admitted to the Gold Coast hospital last year, 60 per cent had the disease.Dr Michael Pyne from Currumbin Wildlife Hospital said many koala populations are sick with chlamydia. Clinical trials for the vaccine initiated by the University of the Sunshine Coast began in October last year.One koala patient named Kassidy is now healthy and nursing a joey."We actually suspected that the boys were very interested in her so we've been following her closely and we re-caught her recently and she had a little two-month-old joey in the pouch," Dr Pyne said.
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