Hendra virus – a ‘One Health’ success story.
Hume Field and Brad McCall BA Queensland Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases
39 Kessels Road, Coopers Plains 4108 Brisbane.
Tel: 07 32766054
Fax: 07 32166591
Email: hume.field@qld.gov.au
B Brad McCall
Brisbane Southside Public Health Unit
PO Box 333 Archerfield Qld 4108
Tel: 07 3000 9148
Fax: 07 3000 9130
Microbiology Australia 33(4) 167-169 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA12167
Published: 1 November 2012
Abstract
Zoonoses account for 60% of emerging diseases threatening humans. Wildlife are the origin of an increasing proportion of zoonoses over recent decades to a point where they now account for 75% of all zoonoses1. Concurrently and/or consequentially, there has been an increasing recognition of the inter-connectedness of wildlife, livestock and human health, and increasing momentum of an ecosystem-level approach (most commonly termed ‘One Health’) to complex emerging disease scenarios2. This paper describes the evolution and application of such an approach to periodic Hendra virus incidents in horses and humans in Australia.
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