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Although it's not specified in common dictionary definitions... "...zoonosis (a disease communicable from animals to man under natural conditions)." —Laurie Ga
by harshreality 2y ago
Although it's not specified in common dictionary definitions...
"...zoonosis (a disease communicable from animals to man under natural conditions)."
—Laurie Garrett, _The Coming Plague_ (Ch 14, section IV)
Which is naturally how the word is used virtually all the time.
Transmission from lab animals kept for study in a biolab, you could argue either way. Transmission from humanized lab animals purposely subjected to serial passage is not really zoonosis in any reasonable sense.
- nickburns 2y agoMost accurately, lab leak and spillover event are not mutually exclusive theories.