{"id":8655,"date":"2025-02-04T18:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T00:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8655"},"modified":"2025-02-04T18:58:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T00:58:49","slug":"scientists-discover-first-henipavirus-in-north-america-raising-pandemic-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/04\/scientists-discover-first-henipavirus-in-north-america-raising-pandemic-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover First Henipavirus in North America, Raising Pandemic Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/scientists-discover-first-henipavirus-in-north-america-raising-pandemic-fears\/\">SciTech Daily<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scientists have identified the Camp Hill&nbsp;virus, a henipavirus, in shrews in Alabama, marking its first detection in North America.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-queensland\/\">University of Queensland<\/a>&nbsp;have discovered the first henipavirus detected in North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Rhys Parry from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences confirmed the presence of Camp Hill virus in shrews in Alabama, USA. \u201cHenipaviruses have caused serious disease and death in people and animals in other regions,\u201d Dr Parry said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne of the most dangerous is the Hendra virus, which was first detected in Brisbane, Australia, and has a fatality rate of 70 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnother example is Nipah virus which has recorded fatality rates between 40 and 75 per cent in outbreaks in Southeast Asia, including in Malaysia and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/scientists-discover-first-henipavirus-in-north-america-raising-pandemic-fears\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SciTech Daily Scientists have identified the Camp Hill&nbsp;virus, a henipavirus, in shrews in Alabama, marking its first detection in North America. Researchers at the&nbsp;University of Queensland&nbsp;have discovered the first henipavirus detected in North America. Dr. Rhys Parry from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences confirmed the presence of Camp Hill virus in shrews in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8656,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8655\/revisions\/8656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}