Currently, studies are underway to better understand how Hendra virus spreads, its impact on pets, and how dogs and cats can transmit the virus to humans.
Hendra virus infection is one of a number of deadly diseases from bats and has claimed over 1000 lives in just ten years. The virus is thought to have been transmitted to horses and can then infect humans as well.
Scientists have linked this virus with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which causes more than 900 deaths, and the Nipah virus that is transmitted from bats and has killed more than 100 lives.
The scientists reported that SARS is carried by bats and the most likely transmitted to ferrets are eaten by humans. The virus is then transmitted through a lot of flying foxes in Australia.
knowledges the similarities between the modes of transmission of Nipah virus from sick pigs to humans, with how the spread of Hendra virus from a sick horse to human.
Hendra virus has claimed four lives in Australia, but local officials said the virus had been handled more effectively than ever before.
Member of the Australian federal parliament, want to give every citizen the right to Queensland to kill animals that have the potential danger of the housing and occupancy, particularly the flying foxes.
One of the victims died from the Hendra virus infection in the middle of last year. Clinic where she works to accommodate five horses that had contracted the virus. Clinics were then quarantined for seven weeks of seven. 35 horses at the clinic who allegedly contracted also been destroyed.
But despite the Hendra virus can infect cats, local health officials advise residents not to get rid of cat pelihraannya. For a while, most cases of Hendra virus is more common in Australia.
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