Zoonosis: What is a Zoonotic Disease

Zoonotic diseases are infectious diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans. Like COVID-19, bird flu, malaria or Ebola. Zoonotic diseases affect around 2.6 billion people every year. Some zoonotic diseases, such as rabies, only spread from direct animals-to-human contact. Others, more dangerously, start with animals and are capable of causing widespread human-to-human transmission. Nuclear-derived techniques can be used to track pathogens as they move from animals to humans to help the world respond better to any future outbreaks. Subscribe for more videos: http://goo.gl/VxsqCz Follow IAEA on social media: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/iaeaorg/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/iaeaorg Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iaeaorg/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/iaea © IAEA Office of Public Information and Communication http://iaea.org