image: Hendra virus is found naturally in large fruit bats (flying foxes) in Australia which can roost (in colonies or "camps") in large numbers, even within urban areas. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 19, 2011, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. K.N. Bossart of Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, Mass., and colleagues, was titled, "A Neutralizing Human Monoclonal Antibody Protects African Green Monkeys from Hendra Virus Challenge." view more
Credit: Image courtesy of Dr. Katharine Bossart