Microclimates Might Limit Indirect Spillover of the Bat Borne Zoonotic Hendra Virus.

ABSTRACT: Infectious diseases are transmitted when susceptible hosts are exposed to pathogen particles that can replicate within them. Among factors that limit transmission, the environment is particularly important for indirectly transmitted parasites. To try and assess a pathogens' ability to be transmitted through the environment and mitigate risk, we need to quantify its decay where transmission occurs in space such as the microclimate harbouring the pathogen. Hendra virus, a Henipavirus from Australian Pteropid bats, spills-over to horses and humans, causing high mortality. While a vaccine is available, its limited uptake has reduced opportunities for adequate risk management to humans, hence the need to develop synergistic preventive measures, like disrupting its transmission pathways. Transmi

SUBMITTER: Martin G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5784440 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature