World Zoonoses Day is observed on 6th July each year to commemorate the first vaccination administered against a zoonotic disease like Ebola, Avian influenza, and West Nile virus.
Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021
Zoonosis is an infectious disease that spread from non-human animals to humans. They started as a zoonosis but later mutate into human-only strains.
Zoonotic pathogens can be bacterial, viral, or parasitic which can spread to humans through direct contact or through food, water, or the environment.
Zoonoses comprise a large percentage of all newly identified infectious diseases like HIV, Ebola virus disease and salmonellosis.
The first vaccination against a zoonotic disease was successfully administered on July 6, 1885, by a French biologist, Louis Pasteur. The day is also celebrated to raise awareness about the risk of zoonotic diseases and their prevention.
