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New drug to combat wombat-killing disease
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- Researchers have found that a disease that has ravaged wombats in southern Australia could be brought under control using a treatment commonly applied by pet owners on cats and dogs.
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- Mange: It causes wombats to lose some or all of their fur and starve to death within months- has wiped out more than 90 percent of bare-nosed wombats in a single national park on the island state of Tasmania.
- Wombats:(1) Squat and furry, wombats are small burrow-dwelling marsupials that are largely nocturnal and walk on all fours.(2) They are not a threatened species.
Source
The Hindu