Hendra virus may not infect people that often, but it can be serious. Like SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, you can get a dangerous respiratory infection. The Hendra virus infects ...

Plowright, a disease ecologist at Cornell University who studies pandemic prevention, was interested in bats because they carry a virus called Hendra. And while it's harmless to bats, they can ...

The virus kills three out of every four horses it infects. Over 100 horses have died from Hendra, though there are no known cases at the moment. And it's not just a problem for horses.

Another horse in Australia had died from the dreaded Hendra virus that winter in 2011. For years, the brain-inflaming infectious disease had bedeviled the country, leaping from bats to horses and ...

Many scientists believe COVID also originated in animals—although some have argued that the virus may have come from a lab leak. Among these zoonotic pathogens is the Hendra virus—an emerging ...

Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls announced today that 323 samples of live viruses—including Hendra virus, Lyssavirus and Hantavirus—went missing in 2021 in a "serious breach of ...

These include nearly 100 vials of hendra virus, two vials of hantavirus, and 223 vials of lyssavirus - all of which are extremely deadly for humans. Queensland authorities insist that while the ...

It was reported that 323 vials of multiple infectious viruses — including Hendra virus, Lyssavirus and Hantavirus — went missing from Queensland’s Public Health Virology Laboratory in August ...

When it does, the result is brutal. New research points to a surprising... Hendra virus rarely spills from animals to us. Climate change makes it a bigger threat Not quite 20 years ago ...