{"id":4965,"date":"2011-06-30T06:32:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T23:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=4965"},"modified":"2011-06-30T06:32:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T23:32:01","slug":"hendra-virus-kills-australian-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/hendra-virus-kills-australian-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Hendra virus kills Australian horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THERE has been another outbreak of the deadly Hendra virus in Queensland, with one horse dead and two properties quarantined.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A horse fell ill on a property at Kerry, near Beaudesert south of Brisbane, and died after being moved to a second nearby site at the weekend. Both properties have been quarantined.<\/p>\n<p>Tests have confirmed it had Hendra, a virus that&#8217;s killed four of the seven people infected with it since its discovery in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>A vet called to care for the sick horse and seven other people who had contact with the animal now face a series of tests and preventative drug treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Chief Health Officer Aaron Groves said: &#8220;At the moment we know people have come in contact with the horse but they need to have come into contact with the horse when it&#8217;s been ill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The virus can affect the horse quite quickly. Humans need to come into contact with the horse&#8217;s saliva and horse manure. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/news\/queensland\/hendra-virus-alert-after-horse-killed-by-deadly-bug-south-of-brisbane\/story-e6freoof-1226083788342\" target=\"_blank\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THERE has been another outbreak of the deadly Hendra virus in Queensland, with one horse dead and two properties quarantined. A horse fell ill on a property at Kerry, near Beaudesert south of Brisbane, and died after being moved to a second nearby site at the weekend. Both properties have been quarantined. Tests have confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-outbrake","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4967,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965\/revisions\/4967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}