| Abstrakt: |
A zoonotic (plural zoonoses, or zoonosis diseases) is an infectious disease caused by a pathogen (an infectious agent, including bacteria, viruses, parasites, prions, etc) that has jumped from non-human animals (usually vertebrates) to humans. The number of outbreaks of zoonotic infectious diseases such as COVID-19, Ebola, bird flu and SARS are rising, which highlights the need for specialized research on zoonotic infectious diseases. In Kerala 17 people were killed due to Nipah in 2018, in West Africa about 11,000 people were killed due to Ebola from 2014 to 2016, and 774 people were killed worldwide due to SARS in 2002-03. COVID-19 is the newest in the coronavirus family which includes, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and is suspected to have originated from bats and/or pangolins. This article is throwing a light on various types of zoonotic diseases and also the various facts which shows COVID-19 is a zoonotic disease. It also covers the information about sources, transmission, epidemiological characteristics mechanism, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment and prevention of COVID -19 known till date. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
