Zoonotic Disease Program

A zoonotic disease is a disease which can be transmitted from animals to humans. The disease may or may not produce clinical illness in the animal. The Zoonotic Disease Program is focused on preventing transmission of diseases from animals to humans.

Zoonotic diseases include:

• Those which can be transmitted directly from animals to humans (e.g. rabies)
   
• Diseases that can be acquired indirectly by humans through ingestion, inhalation or contact with infected animal products, soil, water, or other environmental surfaces which have been contaminated with animal waste or a dead animal (e.g. leptospirosis, anthrax)
   
• Vector-borne diseases which require a mosquito or other arthropod to transmit the disease from animals to humans (e.g. St. Louis encephalitis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, West Nile virus)
   

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Mailing Address:
Ohio Department of Health
Zoonotic Disease Program
8955 E. Main Street, Building 22
Reynoldsburg, OH 43068

Phone: 1-888-RABIES1
E-mail: Zoonoses@odh.ohio.gov

Last Updated: 4/30/2008