Published 13:12 IST, July 6th 2020
World Zoonoses Day History, Significance and Celebration
July 6 is celebrated as World Zoonoses Day. Take a look at Louis Pasteur and World Zoonoses Day history, significance, and celebration. Read on.
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July 6 is celebrated as World Zooses Day. This is to commemorate scientific vancement of ministering first vaccination against zootic disease. Zooses are infectious diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites that spre between animals and humans.
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World Zooses Day history
It was on July 6, 1885, when Louis Pasteur successfully ministered first vaccine against Rabies virus, a zootic disease. Approximately 150 zootic diseases are kwn to exist. Zooses can spre from direct contact with animals or indirectly, vector-borne or food-borne.
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World Zooses Day significance
Zooses Day is held every year on July 6 to commemorate Pasteur's scientific achievement and raise awareness of risk of zootic diseases. People can get zootic diseases from contact with infected poultry, rodents, reptiles, amphibians, insects, and several or domestic and wild animals. One of common ways for se diseases to spre is through bite of a mosquito or tick.
A zoosis (zootic disease or zooses -plural) is an infectious disease that is transmitted between species from animals to humans (or from humans to animals). re are several zootic diseases. most common ones are Rabies, Tuberculosis, Lyme Disease, and more. Take a look at list below.
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Most common Zootic diseases:
- Plague
- Tuberculosis
- Cat Scratch Fever
- Tick Paralysis
- Hantavirus
- Ringworm
- Salmonellosis
- Leptospirosis
- Lyme disease
- Campylobacter infection
- Giardia infection
- Cryptosporidium infection
- Roundworms
- Hookworms
- Scabies
- Harvest mites
- Rabies
Who was Louis Pasteur?
Louis Pasteur was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist rewned for his discoveries of principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. Louis Pasteur is best kwn to general public for his invention of technique of treating milk and wine to stop bacterial contamination, a process w called pasteurization. He is remembered for his groundbreaking work in cause and prevention of diseases and his discoveries have saved many lives ever since. He reduced mortality from puerperal fever and created first vaccine for rabies and anthrax.
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World Zooses Day celebration
Zooses Day is held every year on July 6 to commemorate Pasteur's scientific achievement and raise awareness of risk of zootic diseases. Make sure you get vaccinated for right diseases at right time. Happy World Zooses Day 2020.
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13:12 IST, July 6th 2020