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Bats and mice are generally known sources of zoonoses, defined as infections or diseases that are transmissible from animals to humans.

From Science Daily • Sep. 18, 2023

Many of the projects, including Karlsson’s, are at the proof-of-concept stage, but Maria Van Kerkhove, who heads the emerging diseases and zoonoses unit at the World Health Organization, welcomes them.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 5, 2023

Many emerging diseases affecting humans, such as brucellosis, are zoonoses.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Her responsibilities included livestock markets, biosecurity and zoonoses - diseases that can move between animals and humans.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2022

More than 60 percent of human infectious diseases, including Covid-19, fall into this category of zoonoses that have succeeded.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2020