zoonotic disease

Epidemic Disease Occurrence

Level of disease The amount of a particular disease that is usually present in a community is referred to as the baseline or endemic level of the disease. This level is not necessarily the desired level, which may in fact be zero, but rather is the observed level. In the absence of intervention and assuming […]

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Anthroponotic Disease (Anthroponosis) & Sapronoses

An anthroponotic disease, or anthroponosis, is an infectious disease in which a disease causing agent carried by humans is transferred to other animals. It may cause the same disease or a different disease in other animals. The opposite of anthroponosis or anthroponotic  disease is zoonosis. Zoonosis is a disease transmitted from animals to humans. Zoonoses

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