A booster vaccine using implant technology for koalas is being developed by QUT researchers in the fight against the deadly Chlamydia disease. The new technology is designed to avoid problems for wild koalas and wildlife handlers having to recapture or hold the animals for 30 days, to receive a second immunisation. Koala chlamydia is a bacterial infection and is one of the leading causes of death for Australian koalas. QUT researchers have been successfully testing a two-shot vaccine on an isolated wild koala colony in a five-year treat-and-track study.

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