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Zoonoses Book
R 375.00
- CapeCross
Be the first to order this newly released book ZOONOSES: Animal diseases and man
Written by Dr Jan H du Preez & Dr Gert P du Preez
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A zoonosis is any disease or infection naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans and vice-versa. Humans are often an incidental host that acquires
The human acquires the zoonotic infections by direct contact, inhalation (breathing in), ingestion by mouth, fomite transmission (contact with an inanimate object), and by insect transmission. Some people are more at risk of getting infected with these zoonotic diseases than others e.g. elderly people (over 65 years), children under the age of five years, pregnant women, anyone with a weakened immune system. Zoonoses also undermine the health, productivity and reproductively of livestock on which humans rely for their food (meat, milk, eggs), fibre (wool, hair, feathers) as well as labour and transport. The annual worldwide monetary losses due to tuberculosis, brucellosis and rabies in cattle amount to several billion