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❇️ 6th July

🦁 World Zoonoses Day

      

Theme 2021 : “Let’s Break the Chain of Zoonotic Transmission.”

🔹 Zoonoses or Zoonosis is an infectious disease caused by a pathogen (it can be an infectious agent such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, etc.) that has jumped from vertebrate animals to humans or vice versa.

🔹 The French biologist, Louis Pasteur, successfully administered the first vaccine against a Zoonotic disease on July 6, 1885. As per Infection Control Today, World Zoonoses Day is celebrated to honour this feat.