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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Martin Thomas" data-source="post: 1310640" data-attributes="member: 8214">From the BBC article <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7573535.stm" target="_blank">here</a>A ray of hope has been offered for one of the UK's most iconic and endangered animals. Scientists have found that some red squirrels have developed immunity to a disease that has ravaged their numbers. The pox is transmitted by grey squirrels; but while greys suffer no ill effects from it, if a red catches the virus it will be dead within weeks.The findings, published in EcoHealth, suggest a vaccine could now help to save red squirrels from annihilation. I'm a bit puzzled as even the Online First subscription of the EcoHealth journal doesn't appear to have the article so I'm not 100% confident the BBC have the right publication. I suspect a new article by Carrol et al. (2008) in Epidemiology and Infection entitled 'Epidemics of squirrelpox virus disease in red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris): temporal and serological findings' may actually be the correct one which can be found <a href="http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1927000" target="_blank">here</a>. Unfortunately I don't yet have full access to the article so can't comment further.</blockquote>