COVID-19-Zoonosis or Emerging Infectious Disease?

• Main Authors: Najmul Haider (Author), Peregrine Rothman-Ostrow (Author), Abdinasir Yusuf Osman (Author), Liã Bárbara Arruda (Author), Laura Macfarlane-Berry (Author), Linzy Elton (Author), Margaret J. Thomason (Author), Dorothy Yeboah-Manu (Author), Rashid Ansumana (Author), Nathan Kapata (Author), Leonard Mboera (Author), Jonathan Rushton (Author), Timothy D. McHugh (Author), David L. Heymann (Author), Alimuddin Zumla (Author), Richard A. Kock (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The World Health Organization defines a zoonosis as any infection naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans. The pandemic of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 has been classified as a zoonotic disease, however, no animal reservoir has yet been found, so this classif...