Zoonotic
I recently learned a new word: Zoonotic. Do you know what it is? Do you know that Zoonotic diseases cause over 2 billion cases of human illness and 2.2 million deaths per year? But what is a Zoonotic disease? A Zoonotic disease is a pathogen (virus) that has been transmitted from an animal to a human. Some examples of Zoonotic diseases are Covid-19, Rabies and Ebola. Humans usually get infected by a Zoonotic disease by eating a dead infected animal or getting bit. In this case, the animal is called a host (as it compares the animal as an Airbnb and the virus as the renter). The way the virus is transmitted is through infected fluid such as saliva or mucus. The virus infects by traveling into the bloodstream and finding a host cell. The virus that infects the cell and then tampers with its reproduction system to code it to replicate the virus. Now what the virus has to do is just stay alive until it multiplies. During this time period, the body's immune system will try to track dow