sometimes involving an intermediate domestic animal host. The increased contact is driven both by human encroachment into the bats' territory (in the case of Nipah, specifically pigpens in said territory) and by movement of bats towards human populations due to changes in food distribution and loss of habitat. There is evidence that habitat loss for flying foxes, both in South Asia and Australia (particularly along the east coast) as well as encroachment of human dwellings and agriculture into the remaining habitats, is creating greater overlap of human and flying fox distributions. Taxonomy See also Animal viruses Paramyxovirus References External links ICTV Report: Paramyxoviridae Disease card ViralZone: Henipavirus Henipavirus – Henipavirus Ecology Research Group (HERG) INFO Virus Pathogen Database and Analysis Resource (ViPR): Paramyxoviridae Animal virology Paramyxoviridae Virus genera