The first occurrence of the vector for visceral leishmaniasis, Lutzomyia longipalpis, in the urban area of Uberlândia, State of Minas Gerais, and the first autochthonous case of human visceral leishmaniasis recorded in the same locality are reported. These were notified to the Zoonosis Control Center, through the Epidemiological Surveillance sector of the Municipal Health Department. The import...

The majority of diseases that afflict humans are shared by nonhuman animals, and three-quarters emerging do so. People have known this for centuries, understanding traveled the same routes as did traders, migrants, soldiers. Zoonosis is a process involves movement pathogen from animal body to human body, which then triggers disease. In past, reality mostly served an impediment bioeconomics work...

Leishmaniasis is a widespread arthropod-borne protozoan zoonosis caused by more than 21 Leishmania species. Vectors are sandflies of different genera. The disease is classified into "Old World" versus "New World" leishmaniasis and further subclassified in cutaneous, mucocutaneous and visceral forms. Most therapeutic approaches are not evidence-based. We report a patient with facial cutaneous Le...

Hydatid disease is a worldwide zoonosis produced by the larval stage of the Echinococcus tapeworm. We demonstrate rare locations and unusual complications of this entity during past 6 years. Rare locations during our observation included lumbar spine, sacral spine, spleen, ovary, abdominal wall, diaphragm, pelvis and right kidney. Unusual complications included formation of bronchopulmonary fis...

Mayaro virus (MAYV) disease is a mosquito-borne zoonosis endemic in humid forests of tropical South America. MAYV is closely related to other alphaviruses that produce a dengue-like illness accompanied by long-lasting arthralgia. A French tourist developed high-grade fever and severe joint manifestations following a 15-day trip in the Amazon basin, Brazil, and was diagnosed with MAYV infection ...

Monkeypox is a zoonosis disease that can spread from animals to people. Squirrels, rats taken Gambian slums, dormice, various monkey species, and other have all shown signs of monkeypox virus infection. Contact with bodily fluids, sores on the skin or internal mucosal surfaces, like those in mouth throat, respiratory droplets, infected objects result disease. As World Health Organization has wa...

Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, which is a chronic form of the disease present in western and central Africa, and by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, which is an acute disease located in eastern and southern Africa. The rhodesiense form is a zoonosis, with the occasional infection of humans, but in the gambiense form, the huma...

Q fever is a common zoonosis worldwide. Awareness of the disease and newer diagnostic modalities have resulted in increasing recognition of unusual manifestations. We report 3 cases of Q fever osteomyelitis in children and review the literature on 11 other reported cases. The cases demonstrate that Coxiella burnetii can cause granulomatous osteomyelitis that presents without systemic symptoms a...

1 Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA), Chilanga, Zambia, 2 Care for Business (CFB) Medical Center and Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia, 3 Department of Disease Control, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, 4 University Teaching Hospital (UTH), Lusaka, Zambia, 5 Research Centre for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Japan, 6 Department of Paraclinical S...