Zoonotic Diseases

What does the word "zoonotic" mean?

• from animals

• from humans

• from a zoo

• coming soon

How are zoonotic diseases transmitted to humans?

• close contact with infected animals

• eating infected animals

• vectors like ticks and mosquitoes

• all of these

Which common domestic animals carry zoonotic viruses? (Choose all that apply.)

• pigs

• cats

• chickens

• dogs

In the past 10 years, flu virus outbreaks from these animals have started in the US.

• pigs

• cats

• chickens

• dogs

Influenza carried by pigs is called

• swine flu

• pig flu

• pork flu

• bacon bloat

Influenza viruses carried by chicken and ducks is called

• poultry plague

• duck dengue

• fowl fever

• avian flu

Zoonotic diseases can jump from one kind of animal to another

• true

• false

• flue

• tralse

Zoonotic diseases are becoming more common because: choose all that apply

• people live further away from wild animals

• habitat destruction makes wild animals closer to people

• there are more livestock to supply food to growing population

• larger human population lets viruses spread faster

True or false: all pigs and chickens carry flu viruses

• false

• true

A living organism (usually a biting insect) that can transfer a disease from one animal or plant to another.

• blood-borne pathogen

• fomite

• vaccination

• vector

• virus