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Zoonotic: Pertaining to a zoonosis: a disease that can be transmitted from animals to people or, more specifically, a disease that normally exists in animals but that can infect humans. There are multitudes of zoonotic diseases.Some examples include: 1  anthrax. 2  ascariasis.3  brucellosis. 4  plague. 5  echinococcosis. 6  Lassa fever.oonotic: Pertaining to a zoonosis: a disease that can be transmitted from animals to people or, more specifically, a disease that normally exists in animals but that can infect humans. There are multitudes of zoonotic diseases. Some examples include:
The importance of zoonotic diseases is well demonstrated by a survey of infectious organisms which showed that, of the 1415 species known to be pathogenic to humans, 61% (868) are zoonotic, while 75% of diseases considered to be âemergingâ are also zoonotic.