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| title = 1999 - Hendra-like virus in Malaysia and Singapore | | title = 1999 - Hendra-like virus in Malaysia and Singapore | ||
| date = 07 April 1999 | | date = 07 April 1999 | ||
|url = http://www.who.int/csr/don/1999_04_07a/en/}}</ref> it is an [[overlap agent]] under the [[Select Agent Program]] due to high lethality and a wide range of susceptible hosts. | |url = http://www.who.int/csr/don/1999_04_07a/en/}}</ref> 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, formerly called equine morbillivirus.<ref name=Mackenzie2001>{{citation | 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.<ref name=Mackenzie2001>{{citation | ||
| author = Mackenzie JS, Chua KB, Ua PW, ''et al.'' | | author = Mackenzie JS, Chua KB, Ua PW, ''et al.'' | ||
| title = Emerging viral diseases of Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific | | title = Emerging viral diseases of Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific | ||
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| pages = 497-505 | | pages = 497-505 | ||
| url = http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no3_supp/pdf/mackenzie.pdf}}</ref> | | url = http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no3_supp/pdf/mackenzie.pdf}}</ref> | ||
Hendra and [[Nipah virus]]es have been placed into a new genus, ''Henipavirus.''<ref name=Wang2000>{{citation | |||
| journal = Journal of Virology | |||
| date = November 2000 | |||
|pages = 9972-9979 | |||
| volume = 74 | |||
|issue = 21 | |||
| title = The Exceptionally Large Genome of Hendra Virus: Support for Creation of a New Genus within the Family ''Paramyxoviridae'' | |||
| author = Wang LF ''et al.'' | |||
| url = http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/full/74/21/9972}}</ref> 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== | ==References== | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:33, 31 May 2008
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