zoonoses

• “Diseases transmitted from animals to humans are termed zoonoses and some of them are potentially devastating.”

  Chapter 2

• “Diseases passed from animals to people are called zoonoses and children, elderly people, people with compromised immune systems and pregnant women are most likely to get them.”

  The Daily News - News

• “Three-quarters of new diseases are zoonoses, meaning they've jumped from animals to humans.”

  Press Releases

• “The CDC monitors rabies vaccinations in imported pets, but its regulations require neither a health screen for dogs before arrival to the United States nor an evaluation for specific zoonoses of concern.”

  USA Today: Vet's view: Importing pets brings risks for all of us

• “The risk is rare, but when it occurs it can be very nasty, and especially in immuno-compromised people and the very young, says Chomel, who specializes in zoonoses, the study of disease transmission between animals and humans.”

  USA Today: Sleeping next to pets could be harmful, study says

• “Also, the spread of animal-borne diseases and epidemic zoonoses can be prevented as a consequence of reduced human-animal contact.”

  The Guardian: Could lab-grown meat soon be the solution to the world's food crisis? | Hannah Tuomisto

• “Chomel, a professor of zoonoses at the University of California, Davis and Ben Sun, the state public health veterinarian for the California Department of Health, searched PubMed for peer-reviewed publications that clearly documented human exposure to zoonotic disease by sharing a bed with, kissing or being licked by pets.”

  The Huffington Post: Sophia Yin: Can Sleeping With Your Pet Make You Sick?

• “Most pathogenic viruses that affect humans have originated in animals and jumped to humans; for that reason, we call them "zoonoses.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Age of Pandemics

• “I had said to Reid, who had sent the item: Distemper made some awful inroads in lions in East Africa a few years back, definitely from dogs, so spreading zoonoses are possible.”

  Parvo in Yellowstone?

• “All the diseases I mentioned are zoonoses-that is, diseases which circulate very freely between many different types of creatures, even on Earth.”

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