World Zoonoses Day 2020

World Zoonoses Day is observed every year on 6th July to emphasise and bring awareness amongst people about the zoonotic disease and teach them to take the right action. The first vaccination against a zoonotic disease was administered by Louis Pasteur on 6 July 1885.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

Key-Points

A zoonosis is any disease or infection that is naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans. Animals thus play an essential role in maintaining zoonotic infections in nature.

Zoonoses may be bacterial, viral, or parasitic, or may involve unconventional agents. As well as being a public health problem, many of the major zoonotic diseases prevent the efficient production of food of animal origin and create obstacles to international trade in animal products.

Animals play a big part in spreading zoonotic diseases, with 75 per cent of new or emerging diseases originating from them, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The transmission can occur when there is contact with the animals, consumption of the meat or using of animal products.

The disease can jump from your pets, from farm animals reared for meat or from hunting, butchering and consuming wild game.