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The story behind the discovery of Salt Gully virus

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Thanks Ian!

A new bat-borne pathogen dubbed Salt Gully virus has been uncovered in flying-foxes Down Under. While there are no signs of human spillover, it is a relative of Nipah & Hendra – diseases considered ‘priority pathogens’ by WHO
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Underlying disease can make things worse. Poverty creates a number of factors that can poor infection outcomes more likely.
But "being healthy" is not a shield to the normal biological functions of a disease causing agent like a virus.
A functioning and immunised immune system certainly can be.

> Salt Gully virus does not use the same receptors for cell entry as the classical henipaviruses

> Pathogenicity remains unknown with no evidence of spillover into humans or animals to date

> This new virus is in the same genus as the deadly Hendra & Nipah viruses

> Salt Gully virus is most closely related to Angavokely virus, discovered in bats in Madagascar

Our research describing the isolation and characterisation of a novel henipavirus, Salt Gully virus, discovered in Australian bats has been published in the September edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases.

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Five things you might not know about working at the CSIRO ACDP high containment lab

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IBRC delegates protest visa denials of 8 researchers from Africa and Asia.
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The unwarranted denial of travel visas for 8 respected international bat researchers was a shameful and embarrassing start to the International Bat Research Conference in Cairns. Well done to the ABS and Guardian for highlighting it

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After 11 years, Aaron and I tag teamed a joint seminar on Genotype to Phenotype: Bat immunity at #IBRC2025

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Excited for the Infectious Diseases in Bats symposium today where I will be presenting our research #ibrc2025

Fabulous first day of #ibrc2025. Spent majority of my day in the Bat immunology room 🦇

The bats get fairly large up here in Cairns #ibrc2025

Excited to present our research next week at #ibrc2025

See you at IBRC!