Zoonotic
Pertaining to a zoonosis: a disease that can be transmitted from animals to people or, more specifically, a disease that normally exists in animals but that can infect humans.
There are multitudes of zoonotic diseases.</P> Some examples include: > >anthrax >ascariasis >brucellosis >plague >echinococcosis >Lassa fever >listeriosis >Lyme disease >monkeypox >psittacosis >rabies >salmonellosis >trichinosis >toxoplasmosis >typhus and >West Nile fever </LI></UL> Zoonoses may appear suddenly and be relatively virulent, as illustrated by HIV which ignited the AIDS epidemic and the coronavirus responsible for the outbreak of SARS.