Study reveals new ways deadly squirrelpox is transmitted to red squirrels
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 06:31
in Biology & Nature
Native red squirrels have declined throughout Britain and Ireland for the last century due to a combination of habitat loss and the introduction of the North American eastern grey squirrel. But more recently its few remaining populations have been devastated by an insidious pox virus passed to them by the alien invaders. A new study has found the situation may be worse than previously thought, as the disease appears to have multiple modes of potential transmission.