Zoonotic Diseases: Is COVID -19, A Zoonotic Disease?

Abstract

A zoonotic (plural zoonoses, or zoonosis diseases) is an infectious
disease caused by a pathogen (an infectious agent, including bacteria,
viruses, parasites, prions, etc) that has jumped from non-human animals
(usually vertebrates) to humans. The number of outbreaks of zoonotic
infectious diseases such as COVID-19, Ebola, bird flu and SARS are
rising, which highlights the need for specialized research on zoonotic
infectious diseases. In Kerala 17 people were killed due to Nipah in
2018, in West Africa about 11,000 people were killed due to Ebola from
2014 to 2016, and 774 people were killed worldwide due to SARS in
2002-03. COVID-19 is the newest in the coronavirus family which
includes, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle
East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and is suspected to have originated
from bats and/or pangolins. This article is throwing a light on various
types of zoonotic diseases and also the various facts which shows
COVID-19 is a zoonotic disease.
It also covers the information about sources, transmission, epidemiological characteristics mechanism,
symptoms, diagnosis and treatment and prevention of COVID -19 known till date.