COVID-19—Zoonosis or Emerging Infectious Disease?

• Published in: Frontiers in public health Vol. 8; p. 596944
• Main Authors: Haider, Najmul, Rothman-Ostrow, Peregrine, Osman, Abdinasir Yusuf, Arruda, Liã Bárbara, Macfarlane-Berry, Laura, Elton, Linzy, Thomason, Margaret J., Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy, Ansumana, Rashid, Kapata, Nathan, Mboera, Leonard, Rushton, Jonathan, McHugh, Timothy D., Heymann, David L., Zumla, Alimuddin, Kock, Richard A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 26.11.2020
• Subjects: Animals; Animals, Wild; China; Communicable Diseases, Emerging - classification; Communicable Diseases, Emerging - transmission; Communicable Diseases, Emerging - virology; COVID-19; COVID-19 - classification; emerging infectious disease (EID); Humans; Public Health; SARS-CoV-2; SARS-CoV-2 - classification; spillover; World Health Organization; zoonoses; Zoonoses - classification; Zoonoses - transmission; Zoonoses - virology; China; COVID-19; spillover; emerging infectious disease (EID); zoonoses; SARS-CoV-2

The World Health Organization defines a zoonosis as any infection naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans. The pandemic of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 has been classified as a zoonotic disease, however, no animal reservoir has yet been found, so this classif...