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/zəʊˈɒn.ə.sɪs/ · noun
(biology, microbiology) An animal disease, such as rabies or anthrax, that can be transmitted to humans..
In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
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Zoonosis means (biology, microbiology) An animal disease, such as rabies or anthrax, that can be transmitted to humans..
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In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
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