What Is Hendra Virus Called Transmitted From Animals to Humans?

KOMPAS.com – Some time ago researchers from Griffith University Australia, said: hendra virus or Hendra virus (HeV) can be transmitted to kuda and humans.

Citing pages Griffith UniversityTuesday (10/6/2022) the virus was detected in the urine of black and gray-headed bats, which spread from New South Wales to Queensland.

“The results of our study by examining specific bat species, helped identify how this virus variant was transmitted to horses and humans,” said the study leader from Centre for Planetary Health and Food Securitydr Alison Peel.

He explained, infection hendra virus is zoonotic diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans.

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hendra virus generally found in late May to late August. However, it is believed that transmission can occur in all seasons.

“The development of gray-headed bats in the regions of NSW (New South Wales), Victoria and South Australia, is not normally considered a high risk for transmitting Hendra virus. But recent evidence suggests there is a risk of transmitting Hendra virus to horses and their owners (humans),” said Dr. Peel.

Meanwhile, Epidemiologist from Griffith University Australia, Dicky Budiman, said that the Hendra virus had actually been found for a long time, and was an endemic disease in several areas.

This virus, he continued, came from flying fox — a kind of bat that eats fruit.

“The reason why humans are often exposed to this virus is because fruit bats often end up infecting horses. When they infect horses, their feces flying fox it contaminates the food the horse eats, it infects the horse and is lethal,” Dicky told Kompas.comMonday (16/5/2022).

Since being reported in 1994, Hendra virus infection has been recorded to cause 80 percent of deaths in horses. This risk of death also occurs in humans exposed to the virus.

“Seven out of 10 humans affected by the Hendra virus died. That’s why this is a disease whose source comes from animals or zoonotic viruses that are deadly and dangerous,” he added.

Even so, he said that transmission of the Hendra virus to humans was relatively rare. In total, only seven patients were reported to be infected with this virus in several developed countries until 2013.

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