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Renewed call for vigilance after new strain of Hendra virus discovered – North Queensland Register
Renewed calls for horse owners to vaccinate for Hendra virus after new strain discovered.
The discovery of a new strain of Hendra virus has renewed calls for horse owners to reduce the risk of infection with HeV and vaccinate.
The Australian veterinarian-led research project, ‘Horses as Sentinels,’ identified that the new strain of the deadly Hendra virus was the cause of a previously unexplained horse death in September 2015.
The new strain has been identified in grey-headed flying fox samples from Adelaide in 2013, which shares 99 per cent sequence identity with the 2015 horse case…
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