Anthroponotic disease Anthroponotic disease An anthroponotic disease, or anthroponosis, is an infectious disease in which a disease causing agent carried by humans is transferred to other animals. It may cause the same disease or a different disease in other animals. Since humans do not generally inflict bite wounds on other animals, the method of transmissions is always a "soft" contact such as skin to skin transmission. An example is chytridiomycosis which can be spread by humans with the fungus on their skin handling frogs with bare hands. The reverse situation, a disease transmitted from animals to humans, is known as zoonotic. It
Kathleen Ritter Kathleen Ritter Kathleen Ritter (born 1974) is an artist, curator, and writer based in Vancouver and Paris who focuses on contemporary art. Ritter graduated from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design with a BFA in 1998 and obtained an MFA from the University of Western Ontario in 2005. In 2013, Ritter was an artist in residence at La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and worked at the Vancouver Art Gallery as Associate Curator. She was a visiting artist in residency at Open Studio, Toronto, in the spring of 2017. Ritter also works as a part of the