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          • animal-to-human transmission
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          • Animals can sometimes carry harmful agents that can spread to people and cause illness – these are known as zoonotic diseases or zoonoses. Zoonotic diseases are caused by harmful germs like viruses, bacterial, parasites, and fungi. These germs can cause many different types of illnesses in people and animals, ranging from mild to serious illness and even death. Animals can sometimes appear healthy even when they are carrying germs that can make people sick, depending on the zoonotic disease. Centers for Disease Control
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          • Evaluation of animal-to-human and human-to-human transmission of influenza A (H7N9) virus in China, 2013–15 - Nature by
          • Animal-to-human transmission of pathogens: Pathogens are often transmitted from animals to humans ‘accidentally’, for example via infected meat or water contaminated with animal faeces. - OpenLearn by
          • Proximity to different species though wet markets or consumption of wild animals can also facilitate animal to human transmission. Early cases of SARS were associated with contact to caged civet cats, being sold in wet markets; and some cases of Ebola in Central Africa are believed to have been transferred from animal to human hosts when infected gorilla meat was consumed. - United Nations by
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          • transmisión de animal a humano
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          • Las enfermedades zoonóticas son un grupo de enfermedades infecciosas que se transmiten de forma natural de los animales a los seres humanos. El mayor riesgo de transmisión de enfermedades zoonóticas se produce en la interfaz entre el ser humano y los animales a través de la exposición directa o indirecta a los animales, los productos derivados de estos (por ejemplo, carne, leche, huevos) o su entorno. OMS - by Chema Nieto Castañón
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          • que la transmisión de animal a humano es poco frecuente y que es casi imposible encontrar casos de transmisión de humano a humano. - Salvalnet by Chema Nieto Castañón
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          • transmission de l'animal à l'homme
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          • Les zoonoses sont des maladies et infectionsn dont les agents se transmettent naturellement des animaux vertébrésn à l'être humain, et vice-versan. Wikipedia - by Lionel-N
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          • L’animal à l’origine du Covid-19, ainsi que le patient 0, ne sont toujours pas officiellement confirmés. Cependant, les conclusions des scientifiques (santé humaine, santé animale, environnement) sont unanimes sur une transmission de l’animal à l’homme - Le Monde by Lionel-N
          • Desinfox: L’existence d’un chien hong-kongais très légèrement contaminé au Covid-19, alors que son maître était lui même positif, a créé bien des interrogations, voire des fake news: ce coronavirus peut-il se transmettre de l’animal à l’homme, et inversement? - FranceSoir by Lionel-N
          • Si les données factuelles ressortant des études séro épidémiologiques chez l’animal semblent indiquer que le MERS-CoV a circulé pendant des décennies chez les camélidés, la ou les raisons de l’apparition des premiers cas humains en 2012 sont inconnues et l’on n’a pas encore complètement évalué les expositions spécifiques et les modalités de la transmission de l’animal à l’homme. - OMS by Lionel-N
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