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Thirsty Koala - A Firefighter Gives Koala A Drink (2009 Australian Bushfires)

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Uploaded by on Feb 10, 2009

The Southern Ash Wildlife Shelter cares for injured wildlife and did a tremendous job rehabilitating Sam the Koala until her passing from an unrelated infectious disease.

Please visit their website here:

http://www.samthekoala.com.au/

... and consider a donation because they are literally working out of their kitchens and lounge rooms.

We are all sad at the news of Sam's passing however, it's important to note that Sam was put to sleep due to a condition unrelated to the Bushfires.

Her condition was 'urogenital chlamydiosis' and is caused by a infection of the intracellular bacteria in the genus Chlamydia, which is transmitted via sexual activity and also vertically to offspring.

The Queensland University of Technology is developing a vaccine for the bacterial infection which is looking very promising in the trial phases.

Before Green Fanatics get the chance to blame this on habitat destruction by 'invading' Europeans, let me say that researchers actually believe Chlamydia was bought into Australia by early Aboriginal tribes from Asia over 40,000 years ago. It now affects approx 50% of the Koala population.

The reason Sam was put down is because as the disease develops it can become quite painful.

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  • "You watch he'll get highdrated and he'll rip the fuckin shit outta me" - Lol! What a cool guy.

  • 30 piece of shit deserve to die.

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  • 9gag

  • poor koala ... /me sad.

  • Glad she was taken care of before she passed.

  • @Stinoism His favourite animal will obviously be a panda

  • Interesting... i know him.

    David Tree, lives just down the road from me...

  • @xSlaminSamx i dont get it....

  • @Stinoism Well if their name is epic panda, you guess

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  • Hope in humanity has been restored.

  • @jjmadden88 I use a tablet and I have a big thumb, sometimes I intend to press like but touch the dislike button instead. I guess 31 out of 4048 is a reasonable number of mistakes.

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