noun
definition
An animal disease, such as rabies or anthrax, that can be transmitted to humans.
Examples of zoonoses in a Sentence
Other diseases - diseases which are not notifiable or zoonoses.
Zoonoses are diseases that are transmissible between animals and humans.
Zoonoses - annual report The European Food Safety Authority has published its first annual report on infectious diseases transmissible from animals to humans.
Risks include zoonoses, changes in air quality from the burning of carcasses, and contamination of water supplies and the food chain.
Now we all know that controlling zoonoses is not an easy task.
This exchange of information will assist the Agency in developing co-ordinated strategies for the control of food-borne zoonoses.
Useful guidance on the common zoonoses is given in an information leaflet published by the Health and Safety Executive entitled Common zoonoses in agriculture.
Hygiene precautions aimed at preventing other zoonoses were sufficient for the time being.
Changes in the habits of humans lead to the opening up of new pathways of infection and predispose to the emergence of new zoonoses.
The culling of hundreds of Rhesus Macaques in a number of safari parks across Britain in 1999 highlighted the zoonoses issue.