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23 June, 2020
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Zoonosis is an infectious disease caused by a pathogen that has jumped from an animal to a human. When the pathogen is transmitted from humans to animals, it is known as reverse zoonosis.
The animal infected through the process may in turn re-transmit the infection to humans under some circumstances. Recently novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has begun infecting minks farms in the Netherlands.
It could largely have been transmitted through indirect routes such as through feed or bedding material, infectious droplets or contaminated dust from the bedding. Literature has shown that the phenomenon of reverse zoonosis can also happen in the case of other pathogens such as resistant bacteria. This can add to the greater spread of bacterial infections in animals. It can also involve increased use of antibiotics to treat or prevent such infections, eventually contributing to another slow pandemic of antimicrobial resistance.
Source: IE
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