Dog likely to have caught Hendra virus from sick horse
A domestic dog has been euthanised later testing positive for the Hendra virus inwards northern New South Wales.
The domestic dog was on a holding where a Equus caballus tested positive for the bat-borne virus on July 4.
Authorities believe the domestic dog likely caught the virus from beingness inwards contact amongst bodily fluids from the infected horse.
The property, at Macksville, was placed nether quarantine later the Equus caballus tested positive.
Two other horses too iii dogs on the holding were beingness routinely tested for the virus, every bit is the measure protocol. All had previously returned negative tests for the virus, earlier the the domestic dog returned the positive test.
The other horses too dogs on the holding remained well.
Four horses convey died from the Hendra virus along the state’s mid-north coast inwards the final half dozen weeks.
Six dissever properties were affected yesteryear lockdowns, all inwards the Macksville too Kempsey areas.
The kickoff Macksville holding has had its quarantine lifted, but the instant holding produced the positive number inwards the dog. It is the kickoff canine known to convey been infected inwards the state.
The kickoff reported example inwards a domestic dog exterior of laboratory live on was reported inwards Queensland final year.
Last year, 10 horses on 8 properties inwards the the world died due to infection amongst the virus. These cases occurred betwixt June thirty too August 28. All properties affected were inwards northeastern New South Wales, simply about Wollongbar, Macksville, Lismore, Mullumbimby too Ballina.
Horse owners were urged to live on along companion animals away from unwell horses to minimise the chances of Hendra transmission.
Health government inwards the the world volition assess the people who convey had contact amongst the infected dog.
Authorities are continuing to urge people to vaccinate their horses against the virus.
Hendra is naturally carried yesteryear fruit bats. It is able to infect horses, too inwards vii cases people convey caught the affliction through unopen contact amongst trunk fluids from infected horses. Of those cases, iv proved fatal.
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