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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 20 points 3 months ago (4 children)

You want zoonotic disease spread? This is how you get zoonotic disease to spread.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

only if you survive like a coward

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

are you making a trekkie joke?

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes I’ll go to the zoo with you

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

Let's GO! We can touch are thumb our pinky together by way of teasing the primates!

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

They’re infected with Raaaage!

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel like you’re just making up words now.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

It's not me, honest. I wish we had no need for such a word.

zoonotic adjective

Of, or relating to zoonosis. 

Of or relating to or constituting zoonosis.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonosis A zoonosis (/zoʊˈɒnəsɪs, ˌzoʊəˈnoʊsɪs/ ⓘ;[1] plural zoonoses) or zoonotic disease is an infectious disease of humans caused by a pathogen (an infectious agent, such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion) that can jump from a non-human (usually a vertebrate) to a human and vice versa.[1][2][3]