zoonotic disease

Noun
  1. An animal disease that can be transmitted to humans (synset 114300151)
    is a type of: animal disease - a disease that typically does not affect human beings
    subtypes:
    • actinomycosis - disease of cattle that can be transmitted to humans; results from infection with actinomycetes; characterized by hard swellings that exude pus through long sinuses
    • anthrax, splenic fever - a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people
    • bang's disease, brucellosis, contagious abortion - an infectious disease of domestic animals often resulting in spontaneous abortion; transmittable to human beings
    • glanders - a destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans
    • lyme arthritis, lyme disease - an acute inflammatory disease characterized by a rash with joint swelling and fever; caused by bacteria carried by the bite of a deer tick
    • hydrophobia, lyssa, madness, rabies - an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain
    • leptospirosis, swamp fever - an infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever
    • deer fly fever, rabbit fever, tularaemia, tularemia, yatobyo - a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals
    same as: zoonosis

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