These Zoonosis fact sheets answers the question “What are some of the potential zoonotic pathogens from dogs and cats in Indigenous communities?”
A zoonosis is a disease transmitted from animals to humans. There are at least 89 zoonotic diseases in Australia, which can spread either directly or indirectly between animals and people.
For example:
- Direct: animal to human
- Indirect: animal to inanimate item / soil to human
- animal to food to human
- animal to insect vector to human
One of these fact sheets look at zoonoses that can be transmitted from dogs, and the other looks at zoonoses that can be transmitted from cats.
