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  1. About Zoonotic Diseases | One Health | CDC

    Apr 7, 2025 · Zoonotic diseases are caused by harmful germs like viruses, bacterial, parasites, and fungi. These germs can cause many different types of illnesses in people and animals, …

  2. Zoonotic Diseases: Types, Transmission & Treatment

    Mar 6, 2024 · Zoonotic diseases (zoonoses) are infectious illnesses that spread between animals and humans. Bats, livestock, rodents, birds and other vertebrates can carry them.

  3. Zoonosis - Wikipedia

    Zoonotic diseases generally refer to diseases of animal origin in which direct or vector mediated animal-to-human transmission is the usual source of human infection.

  4. Zoonoses - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Jul 29, 2020 · A zoonosis is an infectious disease that has jumped from a non-human animal to humans. Zoonotic pathogens may be bacterial, viral or parasitic, or may involve …

  5. Zoonotic Diseases: Etiology, Impact, and Control - PMC

    Most humans are in contact with animals in a way or another. A zoonotic disease is a disease or infection that can be transmitted naturally from vertebrate animals to humans or from humans …

  6. Zoonotic Diseases: Symptoms, Transmission, Risk Factors, …

    Nov 8, 2025 · Over 60% of human infectious diseases come from animals. Learn what zoonotic diseases are, how they are transmitted, and why animal health is human health.

  7. Zoonotic Diseases: Classification, Causes, Prevention, Control

    Jun 15, 2025 · Zoonotic diseases, or zoonoses, are infections that can be transmitted from animals (vertebrates) to humans or vice versa. Around 61% of the emerging human diseases …

  8. Understanding zoonotic diseases - fao.org

    Zoonotic diseases, also known as zoonoses, are infectious diseases that can be spread between animals and humans. They include diseases that can be transmitted through various routes, …

  9. Zoonotic disease | Definition, Characteristics, Examples, & Facts ...

    zoonotic disease, any of a group of diseases that can be transmitted to humans by nonhuman vertebrate animals, such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. A large number of …

  10. Zoonotic Diseases: How Animal Viruses Jump to Humans

    Jun 7, 2025 · Zoonotic diseases are not just an accident of nature; they are often the result of intricate biological processes that allow viruses to adapt, evolve, and find new hosts.