Definition of "zoonosis"

1982 February 11, A.L. Ritterson, “Valentine's day: is love really a zoonosis?”, in New England Journal of Medicine‎, volume 306, archived from the original on 4 October 2023, pages 372-373

In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.

2013 January, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 9 February 2017, page 64