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One Health: The Human-Animal-Environment Interfaces in Emerging Infectious Diseases pp 155–170Cite as

The Application of One Health Approaches to Henipavirus Research

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Henipaviruses cause fatal infection in humans and domestic animals. Transmission from fruit bats, the wildlife reservoirs of henipaviruses, is putatively driven (at least in part) by anthropogenic changes that alter host ecology. Human and domestic animal fatalities occur regularly in Asia and Australia, but recent findings suggest henipaviruses are present in bats across the Old World tropics. We review the application of the One Health approach to henipavirus research in three locations: Australia, Malaysia and Bangladesh. We propose that by recognising and addressing the complex interaction among human, domestic animal and wildlife systems, research within the One Health paradigm will be more successful in mitigating future human and domestic animal deaths from henipavirus infection than alternative single-discipline approaches.

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Acknowledgments

DTSH acknowledges funding from the Welcome Trust and the Cedar Tree Foundation through a David H. Smith Fellowship in Conservation Research. DTSH, ESG, JRCP are supported by the Research and Policy for Infectious Disease Dynamics (RAPIDD) programme of the Science and Technology Directorate (U.S Department of Homeland Security) and the Fogarty International Center (NIH). HEF acknowledges support from the Queensland and Australian Governments, and from EcoHealth Alliance, USA.

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  1. Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA

    David T. S. Hayman

  2. icddr, b (International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh), 68 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sharani, Mohakhali, 1212, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Emily S. Gurley

  3. Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA

    David T. S. Hayman & Juliet R. C. Pulliam

  4. Emerging Pathogens Institute University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA

    Juliet R. C. Pulliam

  5. Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Juliet R. C. Pulliam

  6. Queensland Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry, 39 Kessels Rd, Brisbane, QLD, 4108, Australia

    Hume E. Field

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  1. Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Perth, West Australia, Australia

    John S. Mackenzie

  2. Livestock Industries, CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laborator, East Geelong, Victoria, Australia

    Martyn Jeggo

  3. EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, USA

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  4. Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology Departm, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Manhattan, Kansas, USA

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Hayman, D.T.S., Gurley, E.S., Pulliam, J.R.C., Field, H.E. (2012). The Application of One Health Approaches to Henipavirus Research. In: Mackenzie, J., Jeggo, M., Daszak, P., Richt, J. (eds) One Health: The Human-Animal-Environment Interfaces in Emerging Infectious Diseases. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol 365. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/82_2012_276

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