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The Hendra virus is said to have the potential to become a pandemic because it is more deadly than Covid-19.
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Grid.ID Reporter, Ragillita Desyaningrum
Grid.ID – People are starting to breathe easy because the number of Covid-19 cases is decreasing every day.
In fact, President Joko Widodo has loosened the PPKM and the policy on the use of masks.
This policy allows people not to use masks when doing outdoor activities or open areas that are not crowded.
However, having just breathed a sigh of relief, the public was again shocked by a virus called Hendra virus.
In fact, this virus is said to have the potential to become a virus pandemic The next one is because it is more deadly than Covid-19.
Launching the Indonesian Ministry of Health page, the Hendra virus belongs to the genus Henipavirus and family Paramyxoviridae.
The virus was first isolated in 1994 in specimens obtained during an outbreak in horses and humans in Hendra, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia.
The disease caused by the Hendra virus is transmitted from a natural host flying fox (bats of the genus Pteropus) to other animals and to humans (zoonosis).
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