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

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Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/uos-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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