id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-298745-3rrlap70 Field, H. E. Henipaviruses: Emerging Paramyxoviruses Associated with Fruit Bats 2007 .txt text/plain 8409 419 46 The apparent temporally clustered emergence of Hendra virus and Nipah virus in Australia and Malaysia, respectively, and the identification of species of fruit bats ( Pteropus spp., commonly known as flying foxes) as likely reservoir hosts, poses a number of important questions on the ecology of henipaviruses. Hendra virus was first described in 1994 in Australia when it caused an outbreak of severe acute respiratory disease with high mortality in thoroughbred horses in a training stable in the city of Brisbane (Murray et al. The negative surveillance findings (based on a highly sensitive serum neutralisation test) provided a high level of confidence that Hendra virus was not being sustained by in-contact domestic animal transmission, was not established in the Queensland horse population, and that the outbreak was unlikely to have originated from domestic species. giganteus , Nipah virus infection dynamics in the species, potential modes of transmission to humans, and identification of factors precipitating emergence. ./cache/cord-298745-3rrlap70.txt ./txt/cord-298745-3rrlap70.txt