Quotations from the many parts played by British army doctors interpreting the various facets of the anthropo-zoonosis Brucellosis, a disease which itself (as well as the generic name of its etiologic agent) is indeed named after one of them.

H ydatid disease or echinococcosis is an important zoonosis, and is a serious public health problem causing economic implications globally. There are around 65 million people infected in approximately 100 countries.

Introduction: Parasitic diseases could be one of the common problems of human society in any time in every place. The animals can passed this infection to human as zoonotic disease. Cats are one of the most important animals that living and eating long with human in society. Therefore feline parasitic zoonosis is threatened human health and cause death and serious disease. For the reason, the p...

Evidence of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection has been reported for 26 different species of African nonhuman primates. Two of these viruses, SIVcpz from chimpanzees and SIVsm from sooty mangabeys, are the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in humans. Together, they have been transmitted to humans on at least seven occasions. The implications of human infection by a d...

Bubonic plague (Yersinia pestis) is generally thought of as a historical disease; however, it is still responsible for around 1000-3000 deaths each year worldwide. This paper expands the analysis of a model for bubonic plague that encompasses the disease dynamics in rat, flea and human populations. Some key variables of the deterministic model, including the force of infection to humans, are sh...

The present study was carried out to evaluate the seroprevalence of anti-Toxoplasma antibodies in four caprines breeds that are commonly reared in Cholistan desert, Rajan Pur and Rahim Yar Khan during the period between April 2011 and March 2012. The objective of the present study was to ascertain the infection rates of toxoplasmosis in different caprine breeds so that the disease resistant goa...

Approximately 60% of all households in the United States have a pet, with about 74.8 million owning a dog and 25% having two dogs. There are approximately 88.3 million cat owners in the USA, with 56% of them having more than one cat (1). While the bond with animals for companionship goes back 10 000 – 15000 years, domestic pets are also capable of transmitting diseases and causing injury. Zoono...