Qld: Vet dies from Hendra virus = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
08-21-2008
Qld: Vet dies from Hendra virus = 2

Dr Cunneen is the third person to die from Hendra virus.

The highest profile death was that of horse trainer Vic Rail in September 1994.

Mackay sugarcane farmer Mark Preston, 35, died a year later after being involved in
autopsies of horses that had fallen ill.

Five horses have died or been put down as a result of the outbreak at the Redlands
Veterinary Clinic, which remains quarantined.

A third staff member at the clinic was hospitalised earlier this week after being pricked
by a needle while euthanasing one of the infected racehorses.

Dr Cunneen, who was aged in his early 30s, was married without children.

He was a graduate of University of Sydney, and joined the Redlands clinic in the mid-1990s.

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