#zooanthroponosis

[gregor-samsung]

“ The scope of her work, Reed told me, encompassed a range of infectious diseases that threaten gorilla health, of which Ebola is only the most exotic. The others were largely human diseases of more conventional flavor, to which gorillas are susceptible because of their close genetic similarity to us: TB, poliomyelitis, measles, pneumonia, chickenpox, et cetera. Gorillas can be exposed to such infections wherever unhealthy people are walking, coughing, sneezing, and crapping in the forest. Any such spillover in the reverse direction—from humans to a nonhuman species—is known as an anthroponosis. The famous mountain gorillas, for instance, have been threatened by anthroponotic infections such as measles, carried by ecotourists who come to dote upon them. (Mountain gorillas constitute a severely endangered subspecies of the eastern gorilla, confined to the steep hillsides of the Virunga Volcanoes in Rwanda and neighboring lands. The western gorilla of Central African forests, a purely lowland species, is more numerous but far from secure.) Combined with destruction of their habitat by logging operations, and the hunting of them for bushmeat to be consumed locally or sold into markets, infectious diseases could push western gorillas from their current levels of relative abundance (maybe a hundred thousand in total) to a situation in which small, isolated populations survive tenuously, like the mountain gorillas, or go locally extinct. But the forests of Central Africa are still relatively vast, compared to the small Virunga hillsides that harbor mountain gorillas; and the western gorilla doesn’t face many ecotourists in its uncomfortable, nearly impenetrable home terrain. So measles and TB aren’t the worst of its problems. “I would say that, without a doubt, Ebola is the biggest threat” to the western species, Reed said. What makes Ebola virus among gorillas so difficult, she explained, is not just its ferocity but also the lack of data. “We don’t know if it was here before. We don’t know if they survive it. But we need to know how it passes through groups. We need to know where it is.” And the question of where has two dimensions. How broadly is Ebola virus distributed across Central Africa? Within what reservoir species does it lurk? “

David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic; W. W. Norton, 2012 [ eBook ]

[itsnothingbutluck]

zo·o·an·thro·po·no·sis

(zō'ō-an'thrō-pō-nō'sis), A zoonosis normally maintained by humans but that can be transmitted to other vertebrates (for example, amebiasis to dogs,

tuberculosis

). Compare:

anthropozoonosis

,

amphixenosis

.  [zoo-  +  G.

anthrōpos,

man,  +

nosos,

disease]

[piink-u]

so I was in my parasitology class and i couldn’t focus on a single thing my professor was saying cause i was thinking . . .

catboys can have both anthroponosis and enzoosis besides anthropozoonosis, zooanthroponosis and even anfixenosis

poor meow meows

[dienmaygiakhang]

Trên thế giới, bệnh truyền lây chung giữa người và động vật được gọi là “zoonosis”, bắt nguồn từ tiếng Hy Lạp do ghép từ “zoo” có nghĩa là động vật với từ “nosos” có nghĩa là bệnh. Bệnh truyền nhiễm chung giữa người và động vật có thể được truyền lây trực tiếp hoặc gián tiếp giữa người và động vật có xương sống khác. Trong chuyên môn, đôi khi bệnh được chia ra làm hai nhóm là anthropozoonosis và zooanthroponosis.