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Study urges conserving natural areas and promoting biodiversity to prevent disease outbreaks.

Data spanning 25 years explores impacts climate and land-use change have on bat behaviour and Hendra spillover.

Griffith University researchers have discovered a new Hendra virus variant that may pass to horses and humans much more widely across Australia than previously known.

More flying foxes are colonising urban areas, leading to a cascade of negative events, including poor health of bats, nuisance to human communities and Hendra virus spillover to horses. An international team of researchers has been awarded a $2.1 million US National Science Foundation grant to study how humans are contributing to emerging infectious diseases […]