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What is a zoonosis?

What is a zoonosis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An animal disease, such as rabies or anthrax, that can be transmitted to humans.
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The results shall be, when necessary, presented in a way which shows the geographical distribution of the zoonosis or the zoonotic agent.
Foot and mouth disease is a zoonosis, a disease transmissible to humans, but it crosses the species barrier with difficulty and with little effect.
Chagas' disease is a complex zoonosis, primarily transmitted by triatomine bugs, which infest poor quality housing.
Just as pandemic influenza is now considered a noneradicable zoonosis, the question arises whether SARS is, too.
Pandemic influenza remains a non-eradicable zoonosis, and SARS has made an unwelcome zoonotic incursion.
East African sleeping sickness, caused by T brucei rhodesiense, is a zoonosis with an extensive animal reservoir in ungulates, including game animals.

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