Virus fears after CQ bat bites - State News - Agribusiness and General - General - Queensland Country Life

Virus fears after CQ bat bites - State News - Agribusiness and General - General - Queensland Country Life: "Virus fears after CQ bat bites
DANIEL HURST
07 Jan, 2010 06:33 AM
THERE are fears for three men bitten by a bat infected with the potentially deadly lyssavirus in central Queensland on Tuesday.
The animal has tested positive to the Australian bat lyssavirus, which can cause serious illness in humans and has killed two people since it was identified in 1996.
The men were all attacked by the 'little red flying fox' while walking separately along a track at Joseph Banks Conservation Park near the Township of 1770, south of Gladstone"