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Hendra is known as a henipavirus, and it’s similar to Nipah virus, which also comes from bats. These viruses kill anywhere from 40% to all of the animals and people they infect.

The Hendra team, in 2018, had managed to score a grant from a program under the U.S. government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that was unique in its scope and vision.

Tony Hendra, a humorist whose wide-ranging résumé included top editing jobs at National Lampoon and Spy magazines and a zesty role in the mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap,” died on Thursday ...

Hendra at far left, with ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ cast (1984) Everett Collection. His TV career blown, Hendra sought work at National Lampoon magazine (he’d contributed to The Harvard Lampoon as ...