The Zoonosis fact sheet answers the question “What are some of the potential zoonotic pathogens from 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
