Hendra virus
Hendra virus, first identified in Australia in 1999, is a zoonotic virus that can cause disease in humans and animals.[1] it is an overlap agent under the Select Agent Program due to high lethality and a wide range of susceptible hosts, and is in CDC Bioterrorism Agents-Disease list Category C.
Several zoonotic and vectorborne viral diseases have emerged, since the mid-1990s, in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific, the first being Hendra virus {HeV), formerly called equine morbillivirus.[2]
Hendra and Nipah viruses have been placed into a new genus, Henipavirus.[3] HeV was the causative agent of an explosive outbreak of a respiratory disease that resulted in the deaths of 14 horses and one human in a 2-week period in September 1994 in Hendra, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia (19). The virus was also responsible for a fatal human case of encephalitis in 1995, the infection almost certainly being acquired during necropsy of two horses that had died as a result of HeV infection 13 months previously
References
- ↑ World Health Organization (07 April 1999), 1999 - Hendra-like virus in Malaysia and Singapore
- ↑ Mackenzie JS, Chua KB, Ua PW, et al. (2001 Jun), "Emerging viral diseases of Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific", Emerg Infect Dis 7(3 Suppl): 497-505
- ↑ Wang LF et al. (November 2000), "The Exceptionally Large Genome of Hendra Virus: Support for Creation of a New Genus within the Family Paramyxoviridae", Journal of Virology 74 (21): 9972-9979