Editing Kangaroo (section)

=== Blindness ===
Eye disease<!--Proper name(s)?--> is rare but not new among kangaroos. The first official report of kangaroo blindness took place in 1994, in central [[New South Wales]]. The following year, reports of blind kangaroos appeared in Victoria and South Australia. By 1996, the disease had spread "across the desert to Western Australia".<ref name=nwf/> Australian authorities were concerned the disease could spread to other livestock and possibly humans. Researchers at the Australian Animal Health Laboratories in [[Geelong]] detected a virus called the Wallal virus in two species of [[midge]]s, believed to have been the carriers.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Hooper |first=P |title=Kangaroo blindness and some other new viral diseases in Australia |journal=Australian Veterinary Journal |volume=77 |issue=8 |pages=514–5 |date=August 1999 |url=http://www.ava.com.au/avj/9908/99080514.pdf |access-date=31 December 2006 |doi=10.1111/j.1751-0813.1999.tb12122.x |pmid=10494397 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060917145454/http://www.ava.com.au/avj/9908/99080514.pdf |archive-date=17 September 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1071/EC87p36 | title = Viruses on the hop | journal=Ecos | issue = 87 |date=Autumn 1996 | author1 = <!-- Please add first missing authors to populate metadata. --> | volume=1996 | page=36| doi-broken-date = 2 May 2025 }}</ref> [[Veterinarians]] also discovered fewer than 3% of kangaroos exposed to the virus developed blindness.<ref name=nwf>{{cite web | last = Harrison | first = George | title = Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Kangaroos | date = September–October 1997 | publisher=National Wildlife Federation | archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20051230075601/http://www.nwf.org/internationalwildlife/kangaroo.html | archive-date = 30 December 2005 | url = http://www.nwf.org/internationalwildlife/kangaroo.html}}</ref>