Hendra virus

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Epidemiology

• zoonosis
  • horses (intermediate hosts)
  • fruit bats (reservoir)
• 3 human cases in Queensland, Australia in 1990s

Clinical features

• flu-like illness
• pneumonitis
• renal failure
• shock
• aseptic meningitis (seroconversion illness)
• delayed (~1 year) neurological presentation with encephalitis (~1 year)

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