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This is true; it shouldn't be downvoted. There is, seriously, this terrible koala chlamydia that's going around, causing them severe pain, and rendering them in

This is true; it shouldn't be downvoted. There is, seriously, this terrible koala chlamydia that's going around, causing them severe pain, and rendering them infertile. There's a vet show on some nature TV channel where they try to treat wild animals in distress -- I think it's in Australia; I think it's run by Steve Irwin's family -- and there was definitely an episode with a koala with a seriously nasty case of chlamydia. I forget if it was a male or a female; whatever it was it had some kind of painfully inflamed, pink and distended genitals poking out of its fur, and, if I remember correctly, the inflammation was so bad that it couldn't urinate properly and was probably going to end up dying without treatment. It's really nasty.

timerol 5y ago
Downvotes are for comments that don't add to discussion, not for comments that are disagreed with. (For example, this comment I'm writing is off-topic for the current article, and so should probably be downvoted.) Stating a simple fact with no sources and no discussion is not a good HN comment. Ignoring your first sentence, your comment is really good.
- Reubachi 5y ago
  The parent comment was "Why are koalas nasty"? Their answer was "Koalas have chlamydia." How does this not add to the discussion? And this doesn't need a source, that fact is well understood but not obvious to everyone reading this thread.