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Zoonotic Infections

Spread between Animals and People

Infectious diseases can be found everywhere, and NCEZID is engaged in preventing, tracking, detecting, and responding to outbreaks of infectious disease throughout the United States and the world. The links below reference stories and updates about our work from 2011 to the present to protect people from the threat of zoonotic infections spread by ticks, mosquitoes, or fleas or by contact with animals. Zoonotic infections cause diseases like Lyme and rabies.

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Overview of NCEZID's work on zoonotic diseases

• Unraveling, discovering, linking  [PDF - page 14] NCEZID Accomplishments 2015
• Supporting CDC's infectious disease mission by investigating how diseases from animals are spread to people Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012  [PDF - page 51]
• A sample of zoonotic disease outbreaks caused by contact with animals Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012  [PDF - page 52]

Stories that spotlight specific zoonotic diseases

Vector-borne diseases

• The newly discovered Bourbon virus [PDF - page 5] Work & Accomplishments 2014
• Chikungunya knocking down the door [PDF - page 5] Work & Accomplishments 2014
• Q fever at a dairy [PDF - page 2] Work & Accomplishments 2014
• Fighting a real-life "contagion" in the Marshall Islands (dengue) [PDF - page 19] Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012
• Oh, give me a home where brown dog ticks don't roam (Rocky Mountain spotted fever) [PDF - page 21] Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012
• The plague dipstick--bringing the laboratory to the bedside [PDF - page 25] Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012
• Multitasking in the lab--equipment that diagnoses flu can now be used to diagnose dengue [PDF - page 29] Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012
• Bull's eye: An EIP-funded study targets Lyme disease in three states [PDF - page 44] Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012
• The summer of our discontent--ArboNET gives state vital information during outbreak of West Nile virus [PDF - page 48] Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012
• Bigger than a bread box--a win-win solution for curbing plague in Uganda [PDF - page 55] Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012
• Fighting ticks and mosquitoes, naturally (natural repellent) [PDF - page 74] Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012
• A dangerous new virus knocking at our door (chikungunya) [PDF - page 77] Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012
• Developing a vaccine (dengue) [PDF - page 76] Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012

Highly pathogenic organisms

• New vaccines to reduce an age-old scourge [PDF - page 4] Innovative Technologies 2015
• Keeping rabies on our radar  [PDF - page 13] NCEZID Accomplishments 2015
• An improved test for poxviruses  [PDF - page 13] NCEZID Accomplishments 2015
• Monkeypox in the Republic of Congo  [PDF - page 4] NCEZID Accomplishments 2015
• Stopping the Spread of Rabies in Haiti: CDC Partnership Succeeds at Saving Lives
• Monkeypox investigation uses new technology [PDF - page 3] Work & Accomplishments 2014
• A point-of-care assay to diagnose monkeypox and orthopoxviruses in Africa [PDF - page 7]  Innovative Technolgies 2013
• Identifying a new poxvirus [PDF - page 6] Work & Accomplishments 2013
• Responding to outbreaks: US, multistate (Human rabies) [PDF - page 4] Work & Accomplishments 2013
• A new diagnostic test for rabies that requires no specialized equipment or refrigeration, and allows a diagnosis to be made in less than 1 hour [PDF - page 2] Innovative Technologies 2013
• Sharing expertise to eliminate rabies abroad [PDF - page 37] Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012
• Less is more—new hope for a neglected disease (rabies) [PDF - page 53] Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012
• Hungry, hungry hippos (anthrax) [PDF - page 54] Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012
• Zebras can have more than stripes (rabies) [PDF - page 80] Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012
• Beware of disease—that can attack your dog! (leptospirosis) [PDF - page 79] Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012

Other

• Children infected with E. coli after visiting a festival in Washington State  [PDF - page 2] NCEZID Accomplishments 2015
• A recombinant vaccine against Rift Valley fever virus for use in livestock [PDF - page 6] Innovative Technologies 2013
• Cute but contaminated—a cautionary tale about small turtles (Salmonella in pet turtles) [PDF - page 56] Our Work, Our Stories 2011–2012