Contact with the animal itself is one way that disease is spread, but other ways include contact with urine, feces, or respiratory secretions of an infected animal, or contact with other items in the animal's environment.
How do animals contribute to the spread of infectious diseases?
Some wild and domestic animals, such as cattle, pigs, dogs, raccoons, and rodents, carry the bacteria and pass them in their urine. People become ill following direct contact with urine or tissues from infected animals, or exposure to contaminated soil, food, or water.
Which animals spread the most diseases?
Living more closely to humans and being more closely genetically related to humans increased the odds of transmission. Out of all the species assessed, bats carried the highest number of these viruses.
What does diseases spread by animals mean?
A zoonosis (zoonotic disease or zoonoses -plural) is an infectious disease that is transmitted between species from animals to humans (or from humans to animals).
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