Henipaviruses shifted this paradigm on both counts having a much wider host range and a significantly larger genome [6] . Identification of bats as the natural reservoir of henipaviruses also played an important role in significantly increasing international scientific attention on bats as an important reservoir of zoonotic viruses, including Ebola, Marburg, SARS and Melaka viruses [11, 12, 13, 14] .