Horse owners are encouraged to vaccinate their animals against the disease which can be fatal to both horses and, in rare ...

A horse in southeast Queensland has died after contracting Hendra virus, the state’s first case of the disease, which can be ...

The death of an unvaccinated horse from Hendra virus this week in southeast Queensland is the state’s first reported case in three years. Before that, Australia’s last case was in July 2023, when ...

New viruses that are genetically similar to known fatal viruses have been discovered near food sources in a concerning new ...

The death of a horse from the Hendra virus in southeast Queensland, in what authorities say is the state’s first case of the ...

Hendra virus may not infect people that often, but it can be serious. Like SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, you can get a dangerous respiratory infection.

The virus kills three out of every four horses it infects. Over 100 horses have died from Hendra, though there are no known cases at the moment. And it's not just a problem for horses.

It's not often that this pathogen jumps from bats to horses, then humans. When it does, the result is brutal. New research points to a surprising way to stop spillovers.

Hendra virus was first discovered in the mid-1990s after infecting and killing several horses in Australia. Only a handful of humans have caught the disease after being infected by horses, but a ...

That the lethal Hendra virus could jump from Australia’s flying foxes to its humans might seem like nothing more than bad luck, an unfortunate but inevitable consequence of contact with animals.