Australian Wildlife Health Network

Forum : Diseases and disease agents

Name	Date Of Event	Posted	Details
R Woods		18/02/2009	Menangle virus caused a single episode of reproductive disease in pigs in a large piggery near Sydney in 1997. Bats from a nearby colony were also antibody-positive for Menangle virus. A sero-survey of pteropodids in far north Qld also found evidence of exposure to this virus. It is a member of the paramyxovirus family of viruses, and is closely related to another virus isolated in 1999 from fruit bats in Malaysia, Tioman virus.
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