How to Use zoonosis in a Sentence

zoonosis

noun

• Some of them may be the result of unrecognised zoonoses.
  — The Economist, 2 May 2020
• This is an example of a zoonosis: an animal virus that jumps to humans.
  — John V. Williams, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
• Neither of those have caused a pandemic – yet – but the prospect of their global spread doesn’t bear thinking about, and meanwhile new zoonoses continue to emerge.
  — Laura Spinney, Time, 13 Apr. 2020
• Dozens of such zoonoses—diseases that can jump from animals to humans—are carried by exotic pets.
  — National Geographic, 22 Feb. 2016
• This makes them zoonoses, diseases that can jump between humans and other animals.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Feb. 2020
• The degree to which reverse zoonosis increases the risks of pandemics or major outbreaks more broadly remains less clear.
  — Stacey McKenna, Scientific American, 20 May 2020
• Infectious diseases that leap from animals to humans are called zoonoses.
  — Michael Specter, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2020
• About 60 percent of human infectious diseases are zoonoses.
  — David Quammen, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2012
• Their answers to the second have focused on zoonoses, particularly RNA viruses.
  — David Quammen, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2012
• That outbreak is believed to have started when a coronavirus jumped from animals—most likely civet cats—to humans, resulting in a type of disease called a zoonosis.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
• Rabies—like toxoplasmosis, malaria, Zika, typhus, the bubonic plague, and all flus—is a zoonosis, a disease that can make the leap from animal to human.
  — Elisa Gabbert, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
• Worobey’s paper drew strong praise from those favoring the natural zoonosis theory.
  — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2021
• This provides circumstantial evidence in support of the virus spreading to humans from animals—a type of infection known as zoonosis—at the market.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2023
• The experts call such diseases zoonoses, meaning animal infections that spill into people.
  — David Quammen, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2012
• Most emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, diseases that originate in animals, and some may have the potential to trigger massive epidemics.
  — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2017
• Another theory is known as reverse zoonosis, Venter added.
  — Michael Nedelman, CNN, 1 Apr. 2022
• Experts in Africa have warned that monkeypox could change from a regionally widespread zoonosis to a globally relevant infectious disease.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 24 May 2022

Last Updated: 19 Aug 2024