Study reveals new ways deadly squirrelpox is transmitted to red squirrels

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. More recently its few remaining populations have been devastated by an insidious pox virus passed to them by the alien invaders.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-02/qub…