This outbreak was quickly controlled through disinfection and temporary depopulation of individual units in the pig farm.

The source of the outbreak may have been a nearby population of fruit bats or flying foxes.

Menangle is one of three recently discovered zoonotic viruses in Australia that are carried by bats.

Swine: Reduced conception rates; reduced litter size; large number of stillborn fetuses (some with severe skeletal/craniofacial defects); virus found in the lungs, brain and heart of stillborn piglets; No signs of illnesses in pigs of any age after birth.

Humans: Illness lasts for 10–14 days; fever; chills; rigors; drenching sweats; malaise; headache; red spotty rash.