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World Zoonoses Day – July 6
July 6 , 2019
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- World Zoonoses Day is held every year on July 6.
- The day commemorates July 6, 1885, when Louis Pasteur successfully administered the first vaccine against Rabies virus, a zoonotic disease.
- The day raises awareness about the risk of zoonotic diseases.
- 75 percent of the new or emerging diseases originate in animals.
- More than 60 percent of known infectious diseases in people, such as the rabies virus, ringworm and salmonella, are transmitted from animals.
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