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#Biosecurity

Autonomous helicopter hovering over rainforest.

Robots to ResQu our rainforests (2014)

CSIRO PhD student Elena Virtue working with viruses at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory's (AAHL) high bio-containment facility

Preparing for pandemic

A day old chick

CSIRO sends bird flu test kits to Asia

Coloured transmission electron micrograph of the Hendra virus

Vaccine for killer Hendra virus launched

Pigs at a pig farm.

Some things are not welcome in Australia

Bees inside beehive.

CSIRO Medals 2007 – Research achievement – Dr Denis Anderson, Dr Paul De Barro and the CSIRO Bee Team

Graphic of Malaria virus attacking red blood cells.

Malaria Vaccine (1998)

Dung Beatle

Dung Down Under (1972)

The Argentine Ant title card

The Argentine Ant (1956)

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