As the health officials in Australia are on high alert after highly transmissible new Coronavirus variants made it into the country, three bats have tested positive for Australian lyssavirus in Queensland in recent weeks.
After the detection of Australian Bat Lyssavirus that can cause serious illness in humans, the health officials have renewed their warnings and have asked not to handle any injured animals.
The most recent case of the virus was identified in a bat at Anstead Bushland Reserve, in Brisbane s south-west. A spokesperson for Queensland Health s Metro-North Health Unit said, We have been in contact with those people who reported the bat when it was found and those who cared for it.
Zoonotic viruses have come under particular scrutiny in 2020 as the coronavirus has spread across the world. However, while SARS-CoV-2 continues to wreak havoc across the world, a new zoonotic virus has been found to have spread to Europe.
The virus, named the Issyk-Kul virus, has been known about for some time now. In fact, the virus was first isolated in 1973 in the U.S.S.R. with the initial finding published in a paper here. Described as a human-pathogenic virus, it hasn t spread into Europe in it s roughly 50-year history – until now.
Finding the virus
Humans that get the virus can exhibit symptoms of fever, headache, muscle aches and pains, and/or nausea.
two or three seats of them, usually. aisle seat. if you re traveling to exotic places, exotic diseases, the sort of thing you see in the movie contagion, just be careful and protect against mosquito bite. and if you feel sick, certainly see a doctor. if you re sick on a plane, tell the people on the plane. these superbugs like sars, they tend to kill very effectively kill almost everybody who gets it. so that makes it harder for the bug itself to spread, right? we think probably that a bat virus and sars is a bat virus. sars did spread between humans. the unusual thing about sars, it went to a respiratory route and spread fairly widely. ebowl eye has never done that. very large numbers of horrific diseases. but it s extremely unlikely they re going to cause