zoonosis
Let an agent explain zoonoses, relay transmission routes, examples, prevention and One Health surveillance from WHO, WOAH and public health sources, route animal bites and suspected exposures to urgent medical care, describe the named diseases and flag misfiled aliases, and distinguish zoonoses from reverse zoonoses, vector-borne diseases generally and animal-only diseases.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a zoonosis is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a zoonosis, and how does it differ from reverse zoonoses, vector-borne diseases and animal-only diseases? definition
- Has someone been bitten or scratched by an animal or exposed to a sick animal, in which case wash the wound and seek urgent medical care? boundary
Aliases
Named diseases.
Aliases
Aliases.
- What are actinomycosis and its forms, lumpy jaw and swamp fever, and which are actually zoonotic? definition
- Which entry fits the specific disease? action
Science Transmission.
Routes
Transmission routes.
Routes
Routes.
- How do zoonoses spread through bites, food, water, vectors and contact? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Spillover
Spillover.
Spillover
Spillover.
- What drives spillover of new pathogens, as researchers describe? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Prevention Prevention.
One Health
One Health.
One Health
One Health.
- How does One Health link human, animal and environmental surveillance? provenance
- Which entry fits One Health? action
Rabies
Rabies prevention.
Rabies
Rabies.
- What post-exposure care and dog vaccination programmes prevent rabies? provenance
- Which entry fits rabies? action
Context History.
Pandemics
Pandemics.
Pandemics
Pandemics.
- Which pandemics have had zoonotic origins, with origin debates attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits pandemic? action
Veterinary
Veterinary health.
Veterinary
Veterinary.
- How do veterinarians detect and report zoonoses? provenance
- Which entry fits veterinary public health? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- noun.state
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.STA
- Facets: substance
- abstract
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- actinomycosis, cervicofacial actinomycosis, lumpy jaw, thoracic actinomycosis, abdominal actinomycosis, swamp fever, leptospirosis, canicola fever, zoonotic disease
What it is Filled
In the WordNet sense, an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans, such as rabies, anthrax, brucellosis, leptospirosis, avian influenza and many emerging infections, a major focus of the One Health approach; the registry aliases actinomycosis and its cervicofacial, thoracic and abdominal forms are usually caused by bacteria normally living in the human body and are not generally zoonotic, lumpy jaw is actinomycosis of cattle, and swamp fever is ambiguous, naming equine infectious anaemia or leptospirosis. Animal bites and suspected rabies exposure need urgent medical care.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain zoonoses, relay transmission routes, examples, prevention and One Health surveillance from WHO, WOAH and public health sources, route animal bites and suspected exposures to urgent medical care, describe the named diseases and flag misfiled aliases, and distinguish zoonoses from reverse zoonoses, vector-borne diseases generally and animal-only diseases.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Animal to human
- Emerging disease source
- One Health focus
- Several aliases misfiled
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Delay urging medical care after an animal bite or possible rabies exposure.
- Stigmatise animals, wildlife markets or communities as the cause of disease without evidence.
- Advise handling sick or dead wild animals.
- Diagnose a zoonosis in a person or animal.
Only with a human decision
- Reporting suspected zoonotic disease to health or veterinary authorities.
- Decisions to cull animals to control disease.
May
- Explain zoonoses, how they spread and how One Health approaches prevent them.
- Tell a person bitten by an animal or exposed to a possibly rabid animal to seek medical care at once.
Moral aspects Filled
- Zoonoses cause pandemics and many deaths, especially among farmers and the poor.
- Blaming communities or species can lead to discrimination and needless killing.
Who is affected
- People exposed to animals
- Farmers and vets
- Wild and domestic animals
Owners Filled
Steward
Public health and veterinary authorities, which track and control these diseases.
Master systems
- Notifiable disease reporting systems
- Animal disease databases
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-14276606-n - registry parent class
related
- animal disease - in WordNet terms
- rabies
- One Health
- actinomycosis - misfiled alias, not typically zoonotic
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.zoonosis
- Open English WordNet: oewn-14300151-n
- WordNet: oewn-14276606-n hypernym of zoonosis
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- share of emerging infections that are zoonotic: about 75 percent - commonly cited estimate
- rabies deaths: tens of thousands per year note - WHO estimates
- WordNet hypernym: animal disease note
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Disease transmissible from animals to humans
- Actinomycosis, cervicofacial, thoracic and abdominal actinomycosis, lumpy jaw, swamp fever
- Reverse zoonoses pass from humans to animals; vector-borne diseases may not involve animal reservoirs; many animal diseases do not infect people
- Not a visible object; a disease category.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the category
- relay transmission and prevention
- route exposures to medical care
- flag misfiled aliases
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Delaying care after animal bites or rabies exposure
- Stigmatising animals or communities
- Registry aliases that are not zoonoses
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- WHO International Health Regulations
- WOAH Terrestrial Animal Health Code
- National notifiable disease rules
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a disease category.
- viral zoonoses such as rabies and avian influenza
- bacterial zoonoses such as brucellosis and leptospirosis
- parasitic zoonoses such as toxoplasmosis
- foodborne zoonoses such as salmonellosis
- vector-borne zoonoses such as Lyme disease
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-14300151-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: zoonosis - word senses and usage
Open questions
- The registry aliases actinomycosis and its forms should be moved to actinomycosis, not zoonosis
- Should swamp fever be disambiguated into equine infectious anaemia and leptospirosis?
- How should WHO and WOAH sources be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-zoonosis/spec.json