COVID-19—Zoonosis or Emerging Infectious Disease?

COVID-19—Zoonosis or Emerging Infectious Disease?

The World Health Organization defines a zoonosis as any infection naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans. The pandemic of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 has been classified as a zoonotic disease, however, no animal reservoir has yet been found, so this classif...

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Main Authors: Najmul Haider, Peregrine Rothman-Ostrow, Abdinasir Yusuf Osman, Liã Bárbara Arruda, Laura Macfarlane-Berry, Linzy Elton, Margaret J. Thomason, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Rashid Ansumana, Nathan Kapata, Leonard Mboera, Jonathan Rushton, Timothy D. McHugh, David L. Heymann, Alimuddin Zumla, Richard A. Kock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
zoonoses
emerging infectious disease (EID)
spillover
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.596944/full

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