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Infectious diseases in animals

  • Infectious animal diseases

Nature

Diseases can be passed from one animal to another, via direct contact, contagion, or via inhalation. Highly infectious diseases may cause epidemics, with substantial losses. Infectious animal diseases include the four main categories of animal diseases: viral, bacterial, fungal and parasitic.

Broader

Animal diseases
Presentable

Narrower

Zoonoses
Presentable
Q fever
Presentable
Pleuropneumonia
Unpresentable
Glanders
Unpresentable
Fowl cholera
Unpresentable

Aggravates

Infected animals
Unpresentable

Aggravated by

Related

Strategy

Value

Infection
Yet to rate
Disease
Yet to rate

Reference

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero HungerSustainable Development Goal #15: Life on Land

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Medicine » Pathology
  • Zoology » Animals
  • Content quality
    Presentable
     Presentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    D2732
    DOCID
    11427320
    D7NID
    142312
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020