zoonosis

• zoönosis

From zoo- + Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /zəʊˈɒn.ə.sɪs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /zoʊˈɒn.ə.sɪs/, /ˌzoʊ.əˈnoʊ.sɪs/[1]

zoonosis (plural zoonoses)

1. An animal disease, such as rabies or anthrax, that can be transmitted to humans.
   • 2013 January 1, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 1, page 64:

     In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.

• anthroponosis

zoonosis f (plural zoonosis)

1. zoonosis