This was the location of an anthrax outbreak in sheep in the 1880s that ultimately led to trials of the first anthrax vaccine in Australia. Louis Pasteur had already developed a vaccine for anthrax in France. Two of his assistants, Adrien Loir (also his nephew) and Louis Germont, who happened to be in Australia at the time of the outbreak, were invited from Sydney by the station owner, Arthur Devlin, to confirm the diagnosis and undertake a vaccine trial using Pasteur’s vaccine. This was then undertaken at nearby Junee Junction under the supervision of the NSW government — similar to Pasteur’s trial at Poilly-le-Fort in 1881. An Australian vaccine was subsequently produced on Rodd Island in 1890. Devlin and his sons then became the official anthrax vaccinators. Later, grazier and amateur bacteriologist John Gunn collaborated with John McGarvie Smith to produce the world’s first single-dose anthrax vaccine. Today, the station is the location of a large Murray cod fishery.

Image source: Uarah Fisheries