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World Zoonoses Day – July 6
July 7 , 2020
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- It is observed to commemorate the scientific achievement of administering first vaccination against a zoonotic disease.
- It was on July 6, 1885, when Louis Pasteur successfully administered the first vaccine against Rabies virus, a zoonotic disease.
- He reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax.
- He is best known to the general public for his invention of the technique of treating milk and wine to stop bacterial contamination, a process now called pasteurization.
- Zoonoses are infectious diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites that spread between animals and humans.
- Zoonoses can spread from direct contact with animals or indirectly, vector-borne or food-borne.
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