February 2005

Vaccine underway for Jack Jumper Ant bites

ABC RADIO - The World Today - Thursday, 17 February 2005

Reporter: Annie Guest

ELEANOR HALL: To Tasmania now, where a one centimetre long insect has been forcing locals to flee their state.

The “jack jumper” ant kills at a rate of one person every four years and causes severe illness in hundreds of others.

But researchers in Hobart say now they’re a step closer to developing a vaccine, as Annie Guest reports.

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