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zoonosis

Any infectious disease that can be transmitted to humans by other vertebrate animals. Probably the most feared example is rabies. The transmitted micro-organism sometimes causes disease only in the human host, leaving the animal host unaffected.
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In addition to the public health concern about zoonosis, there is also the concern for xenozoonosis, the inadvertent transmission of pathogens from animal organs to human recipients.
Hepatitis E virus sequences in swine related to sequences in humans, ... by Husman, Ana Maria de Roda / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Unlike allotransplants (human organ transplants), individuals that undergo xenotransplants would be required to consent to lifelong xenozoonosis surveillance.
Xenotransplantation: a regulatory beast of burden by Raven-Jackson, J. Mark / LawNow
 
 
 
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