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Chlamydia is a massive threat to koalas as it makes them "so sick they can't climb trees to get food or escape predators, and females can become infertile."
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Australian scientists have begun vaccinating wild koalas against chlamydia in an ambitious field trial in New South Wales.
Australia has begun vaccinating koalas in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales to prevent the spread of a disease that’s causing infertility, blindness, and death.
“It’s killing koalas because they become so sick they can’t climb trees to get food, or escape predators, and females can become infertile”
‘We want to evaluate what percentage of koalas we need to vaccinate to meaningfully reduce infection’