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A Little Vaccination Goes a Long Way

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By Robin Meadows
January-March 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 1)

Haydon, D.T. et al. 2006. Low-coverage vaccination strategies for the conservation of endangered species. Nature 443(7112): 692-695.

With only about 500 remaining, Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis) are the world's rarest canid, and their most immediate threat is rabies from domestic dogs. But new research shows that we don't have to immunize each wolf against rabies: vaccinating just one-third of a population was enough to protect it during a rabies epidemic.

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