Zoonoses are diseases that can pass from animals to humans.
The most well known zoonoses in Australia are anthrax and brucellosis originate in sheep and cattle. Microbiologist Jenny Davis lists other, less publicised microbes carried by our indigenous animals which can be passed to humans. Most likely, a suburb of Brisbane. Hendra virus is the new name for equine morbllivirus, which as we'll hear later, caused those well-publicised disease outbreaks in both horses and humans in 1994 and 1995. Many cities have given their names to various microbes, but I think this is a first for Hendra.