Medicine & TechnologyExperts address the health threat against koalas due to chlamydia by giving single-shot vaccine during antibiotic treatment. Learn more about it in this article.
In 2019, the CDC reported that the US has recorded the sixth consecutive year of high cases of sexually transmitted infections, like syphilis, threatening public health.
Analysis of 10 koala DNA samples shows that koalas have been infected by a retrovirus roughly 50,000 years ago that inserts themselves near genes that are closely linked with STDs and specific cancers.