zoonosis
noun
any disease of animals communicable to humans.
zoonoses
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pluralof zoonosis.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In their Perspectives article, Perfecto and colleagues present a novel "agricultural matrix framework" that can be used to examine the relationship between agriculture and zoonoses.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023
Many of the projects, including Karlsson’s, are at the proof-of-concept stage, but Maria Van Kerkhove, who heads the emerging diseases and zoonoses unit at the World Health Organization, welcomes them.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 5, 2023
Approximately 75 percent of recently emerging infectious diseases affecting humans are zoonotic diseases, zoonoses, diseases that primarily infect animals and are transmitted to humans; some are of viral origin and some are of bacterial origin.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Her responsibilities included livestock markets, biosecurity and zoonoses - diseases that can move between animals and humans.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2022
Many zoonoses — rabies, Lyme, anthrax, mad cow disease, SARS, Ebola, West Nile, Zika — loom large in public consciousness; others are less familiar: Q fever, orf, Rift Valley fever, Kyasanur Forest disease.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2020
