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CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory – the discovery of Cedar virus View the research paper in PLoS Pathogens View the media release

CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory is located in Geelong, Victoria.		CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory is the world’s most bio-secure containment facility for research with infectious diseases.
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CSIRO’s Dr Glenn Marsh, research scientist on the Cedar virus discovery team, collecting samples from underneath a bat colony.		CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory scientists using specialist microscopy equipment at the highest level of biosecurity.
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Cells infected with Hendra virus (left) and with Cedar virus (right). Hendra virus is the more effective at fusing cells (circled) and spreading its infection. More individual cells remain intact (circled) with Cedar virus and it doesn’t spread nearly as extensively.
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Gary Crameri, part of CSIRO’s bat virus team, discusses Cedar virus (2 minutes, for TV) plus B-roll footage of scientists working in CSIRO’s high-containment biosecurity laboratories (4 minutes, for TV)		Gary Crameri, part of CSIRO’s bat virus team, discusses Cedar virus (45 seconds, for web)

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Mr Gary Crameri, part of the bat virus team at CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory, provides some facts on the Cedar virus discovery.

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Cedar virus fast facts

Cedar virus is now the closest known relative to the deadly Hendra and Nipah viruses
Cedar, Hendra and Nipah viruses all originated in flying foxes, the group of larger bats which only live in Australia and Asia
Bats are the second most common mammal in the world, after rodents, and an essential component of our ecosystem
Over 75 per cent of new and emerging diseases in humans originated in animals
Research targeting new and emerging infectious diseases is part of CSIRO’s wider biosecurity effort

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