CSB351Y1 Lecture Notes - Filoviridae, Reston Virus
15 Feb 2012
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Quite recently, maybe 10-15 years ago, they started having discovery of new viruses. One is nipah viruses they call it according to place, Zoonotic viruses animals insects and humans are not animals. These are transmitted from horses and whatever, to humans these belong to the same paramyxoviruses, which means (-)rna viruses. Same as hendra virus, which is in australia. I think hendra is also a place in australia. They came from horses essentially and sometimes from pigs. Sometimes they believe fruit bats can be transmitting the nipah and hendra viruses around because they aren"t going to be in pigs and horses all the time from animal to animal, and from animal to human. Not clear, usually, but usually contact with body fluid horses, if they sneeze or they touch or if you get saliva in your hands the fluid coming out is enough to contaminate or infect people.
