How to Use zoonosis in a Sentence
zoonosis
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Some of them may be the result of unrecognised zoonoses.
—The Economist, 2 May 2020
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This is an example of a zoonosis: an animal virus that jumps to humans.
—John V. Williams, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
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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
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Dozens of such zoonoses—diseases that can jump from animals to humans—are carried by exotic pets.
—National Geographic, 22 Feb. 2016
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This makes them zoonoses, diseases that can jump between humans and other animals.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Feb. 2020
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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
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Infectious diseases that leap from animals to humans are called zoonoses.
—Michael Specter, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2020
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About 60 percent of human infectious diseases are zoonoses.
—David Quammen, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2012
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Their answers to the second have focused on zoonoses, particularly RNA viruses.
—David Quammen, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2012
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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
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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
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Worobey’s paper drew strong praise from those favoring the natural zoonosis theory.
—Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2021
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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
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The experts call such diseases zoonoses, meaning animal infections that spill into people.
—David Quammen, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2012
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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
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Another theory is known as reverse zoonosis, Venter added.
—Michael Nedelman, CNN, 1 Apr. 2022
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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
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