How do zoonoses work and why do viruses jump from animals to humans?
Covid-19, AIDS, Ebola, Nile fever; these are just a few examples of zoonoses.
Among other things, we hear about them more and more often: but what do we mean by zoonoses? These are all those diseases transmitted from other animals to humans, and which correspond to approximately 60% of the pathologies that affect the human species.
How do we get infected? Which are the most "dangerous" animals and how does the jump between species work? With our ethologist, Margherita Paiano, we will tell you everything you need to know about this particular type of infection.
0:00 What are zoonoses
1:46 What is meant by a natural reservoir of a virus
3:28 How do viruses reproduce
5:18 What is spillover
7:09 The history of the Hendra virus
8:26 When do we talk about an epidemic?