Zoonoses

WHO/Carlos Gaggero

About 75% of the new communicable diseases that have affected humans over the past 10 years have been caused by pathogens originating from an animal or from products of animal origin. Many of these new human diseases, called zoonoses, are associated with the handling of diseased domestic and wild animals from their natural habitat or farms to markets and slaughter slabs and slaughter houses. In addition, a number of well known and preventable zoonoses transmissible to humans through food (brucellosis, tuberculosis) or bites from infected mammals (rabies) and insects (Rift Valley Fever) or following environmental contamination such as echinococcosis/hydatidosis continue to occur in many countries, especially in the developing world where they mostly affect the poorest segment of the human population.

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