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Environment
Laine Clark

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Vaccine trial offers hope for koalas - Caught on Camera

A vet is encouraged that a vaccinated koala is pregnant in an area where chlamydia runs rampant. (AAP)

Researchers are hopeful of combating a major threat to Australia's dwindling koala population thanks to a chlamydia vaccine trial in Queensland.

The sexually transmitted disease has spread widely among koalas and can cause infertility, further threatening a species already hit hard by bushfires, land clearing and climate change.

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