From flying foxes to horses, virus hunters fear Hendra cases might be missed

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From flying foxes to horses, virus hunters fear Hendra cases might be missed | liammannix

. These receptors are found in a very broad range of species from fish to mammals. We seem unable to do without them: geneticists call them “evolutionarily conserved”. And they give Hendra a chance to jump.

As we clear-fell the eucalpyts flying foxes feed on, they go hungry, particularly in winter. Starving, they seek out fruit in backyard orchards, roosting nearby in small colonies. “Species can adapt and change. But then it just reaches a point where the system flips, and they can no longer respond,” says Peel. “A threshold may have been crossed.”

But it does serve as a model for what we’re doing to animals and the viruses they carry. Our actions alter their behaviour, bringing them – and their viruses – into contact with livestock and humans. These changes can happen suddenly when a threshold is breached.

 

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liammannix Yes we'll have to vax all the animals now. Good luck trying to vax the bees.

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