Zoonotic diseases or zoonoses are infectious diseases which transmitted from a pet or domesticated animals to humans. More specifically some animals can carry harmful germs which can be shared with people and cause illness.
Harmful germs such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi are present in domesticated animals and can cause many types of mild to serious diseases in animals and humans. These germs may spread through direct or indirect contact. The examples of zoonotic diseases are anthrax, plague, brucellosis.
