Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A disease of animals, such as rabies or psittacosis, that can be transmitted to humans.
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- noun An animal
disease , such asrabies oranthrax , that can betransmitted to humans.
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- noun an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The transmission of disease from one species to another is called zoonosis and is of great concern to the CDC.
Hardy Jones: What Will End the Dolphin Slaughter? Hardy Jones 2010
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The transmission of disease from one species to another is called zoonosis and is of great concern to the CDC.
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Pets, animals e.g. Q fever Psittacosis hantavirus pulmonary syndrome "zoonosis"
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She said although this was a zoonosis (diseases that can be passed between animals, whether wild or domesticated, to humans), there was no need for the public to panic.
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Palese†™ s report is based on the key 1992 paper by Bird Flu authority, K.F. Shortridge: “Pandemic influenza: a zoonosis? †Seminars in Respiratory Infections, 7 (1) ,11-25.
Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer 2006
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Additionally, we are trained in zoonosis- animal - human disease transmission.
Anti-Choice lapdog up for a vote to be the FDA commissioner 2005
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Rift Valley Fever (RVF), is a zoonosis (a disease which primarily affects animals, but occasionally causes disease in humans).
Chapter 2 2000
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Although primarily a zoonosis, sporadic cases and outbreaks of CCHF affecting humans do occur. 1998 has already witnessed 2 outbreaks, one in Pakistan affecting four people, with two deaths, and another in Afghanistan affecting 19 people with 12 deaths.
Chapter 2 1998
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Brucellosis is a zoonosis of both public health and economic significance in most developing countries.
Chapter 2 1997
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Lesihmania vectors occur: Phlebotomus ariasi is important in the wooded hills of South West France, where infected hogs serve as the reservoir for this zoonosis (C. 20).
Chapter 7 1996
john commented on the word zoonosis
Fantastic word. From Wikipedia:
"A zoonosis (pronounced /zoʊəˈnoʊsɪs/) is any infectious disease that is able to be transmitted (vectored) from other animals, both wild and domestic, to humans or from humans to animals (the latter is sometimes called reverse zoonosis).
The word is derived from the Greek words zoon (animal) (IPA: zo'on) and nosos (disease)."
October 17, 2007