A virus, formerly called equine morbillivirus, that can
cause illness in horses and humans. First identified in 1994 in Australia where
the virus caused the death of two patients, one of pneumonia and the other of encephalitis
that developed a year after the patient's initial exposure.
H endra virus is widely distributed in fruit bats (Megachiroptera) in Australia,
suggesting that fruit bats may be the natural host of the virus. Hendra virus-infected
fruit bats have also been reported in Papua New Guinea.
Hendra virus is a Paramyxovirus similar but not identical to Nipah virus, another
agent of zoonotic viral disease, in which bats are thought to be the host.
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