Definition

An infectious disease humans get from an animal. 

Further reading
Zoonoses - World Health Organization (WHO) [website]
A generalizable one health framework for the control of zoonotic diseases (Ghai et al., 2022) [journal article]
Related

animal domestication; animal-to-human diseases; animal-to-human spillover; communicable disease control; communicable diseases; Emerging Infectious Disease (EID); pets; reservoir hosts; reservoirs; spillover events; spillover infections; vaccinations; vaccines; wildlife trade; zoonoses; zoonotic diseases; zoonotic disease transmission; zoonotic pathogens; zoonotic transmission

See also
Agriculture
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
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Pandemic
Vectors
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