Zoonosis: what does it mean? The meaning of the term “Zoonosis” has changed greatly over the time. At least in the first half of the 19th century, early microscopes easily identified fungi, small animals, protozoans and metazoans: bacteria and viruses were much too small to be visualized. Hence, for more than a century, the term zoonosis indicated any disorder due to infectious agents visible b...

Humanized pigs have been developed to reduce the incidence of immune rejection in xenotransplantation, but significant concerns remain, such as transmission of viral zoonosis. Porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERV), which exist in the genome of pigs, are produced as infectious virions from all porcine cells and cause zoonosis. Here, we examined the possibility of zoonosis of hosts under conditi...

Zoonosis refers to the transmission of infectious diseases from animal to human. The increasing number of zoonosis incidence makes the great losses to lives, including humans and animals, and also the impact in social economic. It motivates development of a system that can predict the future number of zoonosis occurrences in human. This paper analyses and presents the use of Seasonal Autoregres...

The main cause of human infectious diseases and public health threats these days has been thought to be “emerging and re-emerging diseases” such as BSE, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), SARS, etc. These infectious diseases were derived from pathogens from animals (zoonosis) and their products (food-borne infections). Recent zoonoses worldwide are reviewed here by origin, environment an...