Can be transmitted from racing horses, you should recognize the symptoms of Hendra virus in humans. The natural hosts of the virus have been identified as fruit bats of the family Pteropodidae, genus Pteropus.
Quoted from the WHO page, Thursday (19/5/2022), Hendra virus (HeV) infection is a zoonosis (a disease that can be transmitted to humans from animals) that rarely appears that causes severe and often fatal disease in infected horses and humans.
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Before knowing the symptoms when infected with the Hendra virus, first recognize the origin of this disease. HeV was identified during the first recorded outbreak of the disease in the Brisbane suburb of Hendra, Australia, in 1994. The outbreak involved 21 stabled racehorses and two human cases. As of July 2016, 53 incidents of the disease involving more than 70 horses have been reported.
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All these incidents occurred only on the northeast coast of Australia. A total of seven humans have contracted Hendra virus from infected horses, mainly through close contact during treatment or necropsy of sick or dead horses.
Quoted from the Tanjung Priok Agricultural Quarantine Center page, Thursday, in horses, the incubation period for the Hendra virus is estimated to be 5-16 days. The incubation period in experiments on infected cats was 4-8 days. In horses appear clinical symptoms indicated by two syndromes that are, characterized by respiratory diseases and neurological disorders. Most of the known cases are severe and acute, and cause death within a few days. However, also reported mild cases in horses until healing.
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In humans, symptoms of Hendra virus will appear 5-12 days after infection. Symptoms such as influenza and encephalitis. In addition, it has also been reported clinical symptoms that appear in humans in the form of fever, myalgia, and respiratory disorders. People infected by contact with infected horses can recover before the disease progresses until symptoms of encephalitis appear that are fatal.
Prevention of the entry of Hendra virus outbreak into Indonesia has been done by banning the importation of horses and their derivatives from endemic areas, namely Australia. In addition, the culture of consuming bats must be eliminated because the results of the study found bats that are serologically positive for Hendra virus infection.
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Intensive supportive care is provided, and the use of monoclonal antibodies is being investigated. There is a registered Hendra veterinary vaccine and vaccination is recognized as an effective way to reduce the risk of racing horses becoming infected and to reduce the likelihood of exposure to humans.