Context: As per the Union Health Ministry, 75% of new infectious diseases that have emerged over the past three decades have been zoonotic, and the Ministry is increasing its focus on zoonotic diseases.
| Zoonoses | Associated Diseases |
| Bacterial Zoonoses | Anthrax, Tuberculosis, Brucellosis, Plague, Leptospirosis, Salmonellosis, Lyme Disease, Leprosy |
| Viral Zoonoses | Rabies, Hantavirus, Arbovirus Infections, Yellow Fever, Influenza, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome- AIDS, Ebola, Chikungunya Fever, Dengue Fever, Zika Fever, Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Monkeypox, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) |
| Rickettsial Zoonoses | Murine Typhus, Tick Typhus, Scrub Typhus, Q-fever, Epidemic Typhus, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Queensland Tick Typhus |
| Protozoan Zoonoses | Toxoplasmosis, Trypanosomiasis, Leishmaniasis, African Sleeping Sickness, Chagas Disease, |
| Helminthic Zoonoses | Echinococcosis (hydatid disease), Taeniasis |
| Fungal Zoonoses | Deep Mycosis – Histoplasmosis, Cryptococcosis |
| Ectoparasites | Scabies, Myiasis |
| Acellular non-viral Pathogens | Mad Cow Disease, also known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. In human known as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) |
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