An elegant way to stop deadly Hendra virus spillovers from bats to horses ... to us

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Wouldn't it be lovely if your Granddaughter's Dr. Doolittle interest remained an interest in some way or another? At issue is not only Zoonotic Disease, viruse, but more importantly environments that support the nutritional needs of wild and domesticated animals so they stay healthy. It has been about land use - more precisely land abuse - for a very long time. We need to be much better stewards of the land, the critters that live on the land, and our own species.

Zoonoses are scary stuff - especially when the critters that carry them do not become ill from them. We do not seem to have seen much hanta virus around, thankfully, however, apparently in the 90s it was first discovered in mice in the four corner's region who it was learned carry it.
I have often wondered if covid is related to hanta virus - given similarities, and given that covid vaccines were tested on the Navajo tribe in the four corners. It was voluntary, but many people volunteered.
Monoclonal antibodies were also advised to be used on people who had covid which it was said highly reduced the severity - if given in time. Perhaps they work on a variety of virues (bacteria, germs . . . )?

That's for sharing this!