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Health and safety information about flying foxes including the Hendra virus, Australian Bat Lyssavirus, health risks and actions.
This study found the new genetic type of Hendra in grey-headed flying foxes in Victoria and South Australia, and in the little red flying fox in Western Australia, confirming the virus can be found in four species of flying fox and in a broad geographic range of Australia.
16 de nov. de 2022 · Australian flying foxes are of interest because they host a virus called Hendra, which causes a very rare but deadly respiratory infection that kills one in every two infected people.
- Smriti Mallapaty
13 de out. de 2021 · Hendra virus (HeV) has caused lethal disease outbreaks in humans and horses in Australia. Flying foxes are the wildlife reservoir from which the virus was first isolated in 1996. Following a heat stress mortality event in Australian flying foxes in 2013, a novel HeV variant was discovered.
- Jianning Wang, Danielle E. Anderson, Kim Halpin, Xiao Hong, Honglei Chen, Som Walker, Stacey Valdete...
- 2021
24 de fev. de 2022 · Hendra virus circulates among flying foxes and is fatal to horses and humans. All flying-fox species in Australia are capable of being infected with the virus and may transmit it to humans via...
16 de nov. de 2022 · The black flying fox is one of the bats in Australia that carries the Hendra virus, which sometimes spills over to horses — and humans — with devastating impact.
12 de mar. de 2024 · Hendra virus is a virus that infects large fruit bats (flying foxes). Occasionally the virus can spread from flying foxes to horses and horses can then pass the infection on to humans. A small number of people who had very close contact with infected horses have developed Hendra virus infection.
