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Human intrusion on fruit bat habitats raises exposure risk to Hendra virus in Australia

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  • Human intrusion on fruit bat habitats raises exposure risk to Hendra virus in Australia

    Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_relea...-hio081017.php


    Public Release: 15-Aug-2017
    Human intrusion on fruit bat habitats raises exposure risk to Hendra virus in Australia
    60 outbreaks of Hendra have caused the death of seven people and 102 horses to date
    University of Sydney

    Reported today in Scientific Reports by researchers from the University of Sydney, University of Melbourne and State University of New York, the study traces how pressures such as expanding human populations, urbanisation and forest fragmentation altered the shape and size of the habitats of pteropid fruit bats (flying foxes) in the decades between 1980 and 2015...
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