How to Use zoonosis in a Sentence

zoonosis

noun
  • These conditions are known as zoonotic diseases, or zoonoses.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Infectious diseases that leap from animals to humans are called zoonoses.
    — Michael Specter, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2020
  • Dozens of such zoonoses—diseases that can jump from animals to humans—are carried by exotic pets.
    — National Geographic, 22 Feb. 2016
  • Neither of those have caused a pandemic – yet – but the prospect of their global spread doesn’t bear thinking about, and meanwhile new zoonoses continue to emerge.
    — Laura Spinney, Time, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Worobey’s paper drew strong praise from those favoring the natural zoonosis theory.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The degree to which reverse zoonosis increases the risks of pandemics or major outbreaks more broadly remains less clear.
    — Stacey McKenna, Scientific American, 20 May 2020
  • The experts call such diseases zoonoses, meaning animal infections that spill into people.
    — David Quammen, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2012
  • That outbreak is believed to have started when a coronavirus jumped from animals—most likely civet cats—to humans, resulting in a type of disease called a zoonosis.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Unlike mosquitos, the flies are not vectors for diseases otherwise known as zoonoses, illnesses that certain animals can pass to humans.
    — Catherine Wang, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Their answers to the second have focused on zoonoses, particularly RNA viruses.
    — David Quammen, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2012
  • This provides circumstantial evidence in support of the virus spreading to humans from animals—a type of infection known as zoonosis—at the market.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Most emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, diseases that originate in animals, and some may have the potential to trigger massive epidemics.
    — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2017
  • Newspapers and cable news shows have long treated the lab-leak and zoonosis theories as somehow equivalent, often by asserting that both suffer from lack of evidence.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • Rabies—like toxoplasmosis, malaria, Zika, typhus, the bubonic plague, and all flus—is a zoonosis, a disease that can make the leap from animal to human.
    — Elisa Gabbert, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
  • Experts in Africa have warned that monkeypox could change from a regionally widespread zoonosis to a globally relevant infectious disease.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 24 May 2022
  • Even though the consequences were globally devastating, scientists have primarily focused on the zoonosis process.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2024
  • The Republicans devote more than 50 pages of their report to an effort to denigrate a seminal paper supporting the zoonosis hypothesis.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In warmer weather, both wild and domestic animals spend more time outdoors, as do people, said Rachel Reichardt, environmental health specialist and zoonosis lead at the health department.
    — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
  • However, as the lack of evidence for zoonosis has become clear, the relative weight of the real and hard (if circumstantial) evidence favoring the possibility of a lab leak origin should have received more attention.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The Virology authors warn that the vilification of scientists whose research supports the zoonosis hypothesis will leave society defenseless when the next pandemic threat emerges.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Among those investigations is an attempt to clarify how long people with the virus remain infectious, said Maria Van Kerkhove, who leads the WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
  • Ebright further accused Andersen and Garry of perjury, based on their denials at a congressional hearing in July that Fauci pressured them to advocate for the zoonosis theory in their paper.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024

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