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Amplifying host |
Spread microbes to other suceptable animals Pigs are this many times |
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Dead end host |
Microbe cannot be transmitted to any other animals Many cases the host will die |
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Hendra virus |
5 to 10 day incubation period Causes pneumonia and edema and encephalitis Spread by secreations Bats are a resevoir |
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Australien bat Lyssavirus |
Similar to rabies Bats are the resevoir Symptoms: numbness agitarion depression Bats: weekness or paralysis |
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Menangle virus |
Fruit bats source of virus Pigs have still bourne babies No death in adults |
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Nipah virus |
Similar to hendra virus Causes severe cough in pigs causeing rapid transmission Humans: fever headaches pneumonia No human to human contact |
