Zoonotic Diseases
CataloguedZoonoses are infectious diseases of animals that can naturally be transmitted to humans. They consist of a wide range of diseases and range from endemic zoonoses such as brucellosis, anthrax, bovine tuberculosis, parasitic diseases (hydatid disease, echinococcosis, trichinellosis) and rabies to emerging zoonoses, such as highly pathogenic avian influenza, Nipah/Hendra disease and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
Zoonotic Diseases sits under Zoology and Veterinary Science in the Science and Research domain of the Luminid skills catalogue.
Also known as
- animal diseases transmissible to humans
- animal to human diseases
- animal-borne diseases
- cross-species infections
- zoonoses
- zoönoses
- zoonosis
- zoönosis
- zoonotic disease transmission
- zoonotic illness
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