Guidelines for veterinarians handling potential Hendra virus infection in horses (Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries)

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Guidelines for veterinarians handling potential Hendra virus infection in horses

Version 3 April 2009

Author/s:
Biosecurity Queensland
Published:
April 2009
Bibliographic details:
32 pages

Summary of important changes from previous version of this document (Version 2)

Guidelines for veterinarians handling potential Hendra Virus infection in horses - Cover image
  • Section 4.2: update of epidemiology section
  • Section 4.8: reference to paper - 'Initial experimental characterisation of HeV (Redland Bay 2008) infection in horses' - D Middleton, CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL)
  • Section 5.1: update of case definition
  • Section 5.6.5: update of sampling section
  • Section 6: update of limited necropsy approach
  • Appendix 1: Hendra virus incident summary table

Most changes reflect findings from the paper ´Initial experimental characterisation of HeV (Redland Bay 2008) infection in horses´ - D Middleton, CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in addition to language and format changes throughout the document (editing changes).

Appendix 1 is an update summary of Hendra cases to date - this data was previously referenced in Section 4.2 (epidemiology), but has been updated and expanded.

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Author: Biosecurity Queensland
Page maintained by Caroline Dalton
Last reviewed 14 April 2009

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