Queensland COVID-19 research

This page of Queensland’s research related to the COVID-19 pandemic is compiled from information provided by Queensland universities and research institutes.

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• The significance of viral communities in bats in the spillover of bat-borne viruses into other animals May 2021

  Dr. Alison Peel, a veterinarian and wildlife disease ecologist, and her team at the Wildlife Disease Ecology Group at the Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security have been undertaking a long term study of how the environment, animals, viruses and people interact across multiple scales to cause viral spillover from bats into horses and humans. The research aims to develop a better understanding of the dynamics of wildlife diseases which can be used to ensure scientifically sound decisions relating to the health of wildlife, domestic animals and people, as well as conservation and to provide sustainable solutions that protect future generations from novel zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19. The importance of Dr. Peel’s research is paramount when you consider that bats have also been implicated in the transmission of coronaviruses and Ebola to people—potentially as a result of human disruption to natural environments. As SARS-CoV-2 is closely related to known bat viruses, a review of research in Australia identified that there are only three studies of bat coronaviruses in Australian bat species and a qualitative risk assessment conducted by a multi-disciplinary group evaluated the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from humans to bats in the Australian context.

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  Centre

  Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security
  Griffith University

  Contact details

  Doctor Alison Peel
  Senior Research Fellow
  a.peel@griffith.edu.au
  +61 (0)467 806 660

  Collaborations

  • Collaborators:
  • John-Sebastian Eden -Westmead Institute for Medical Research
  • Dr. Ina Smith - CSIRO
  • Dr. Edward Annand - University of Sydney
  • A/Prof Rain Plowright - Montana State University
  • Dr. Vincent Munster -Rocky Mountain Laboratories
  • Funder: US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.