What is Zoonotic Diseases?

What is Zoonotic Diseases?

• Zoonotic Diseases: When a condition is transmitted through a zoonotic organisms.

Zoonotic Diseases: Introduction

Types of Zoonotic Diseases:

Types of Zoonotic Diseases:

• Insect-borne diseases
• Mosquito-borne diseases
• Tick-borne diseases
• Rodent-borne diseases
• Flea-borne diseases
• Louse-borne diseases
• Mite conditions
• Lice conditions
• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
• Chronic wasting disease (CWD) of mule deer and elk
• Feline spongiform encephalopathy
• Transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME)
• Dog bite
• Cat bite
• Toxoplasmosis - often caught from cat feces.
• Rabies - often caught from an animal bite.
• Anthrax
• Babesiosis
• Brucellosis
• Cat scratch disease
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Fascioliasis
• Giardiasis
• Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
• Histoplasmosis
• Listeriosis
• Psittacosis
• Q fever
• Salmonellosis
• Toxocariasis
• Trichinosis
• Hydatid disease
• Leptospirosis
• Orf
• Eastern equine encephalitis
• Western equine encephalitis
• more types...»

Broader types of Zoonotic Diseases:

• Diseases contagious from animals
• more types...»

How is it treated?

Treatments for Zoonotic Diseases: see treatments for Zoonotic Diseases
Research for Zoonotic Diseases: see research for Zoonotic Diseases

Society issues for Zoonotic Diseases

Hospitalization statistics for Zoonotic Diseases: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Zoonotic Diseases:

• 0.005% (628) of hospital consultant episodes were for toxic effect of contact with venomous animals in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 95% of hospital consultant episodes for toxic effect of contact with venomous animals required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 65% of hospital consultant episodes for toxic effect of contact with venomous animals were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 35% of hospital consultant episodes for toxic effect of contact with venomous animals were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 66% of hospital consultant episodes for toxic effect of contact with venomous animals required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 1.3 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for toxic effect of contact with venomous animals in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 1 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for toxic effect of contact with venomous animals in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• more statistics...»

Name and Aliases of Zoonotic Diseases

Main name of condition: Zoonotic Diseases

Class of Condition for Zoonotic Diseases: animal

Animal-related conditions

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Zoonotic Diseases:

• Rabies
• Anthrax
• Brucellosis
• Dengue fever
• Leptospirosis
• Nipah fever
• Yellow fever
• Toxoplasmosis
• Tularaemia
• Cutaneous larva migrans
• SARS
• Glandular fever
• Kyasanur forest disease
• Giardiasis
• Ebola virus

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