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Background Information

Animal domestication began over 10,000 years ago (National Geographic). "Animal domestication put humans in closer, habitual physical contact with certain animals, and the waste and pathogens of those species (Harper and Armelagos, 2013). This close association also created larger continuous host pools for microorganisms capable of exploiting human and non-human mammal hosts (e.g. canines, bovids) (Harper and Armelagos). Domestication, therefore, is associated with historic and current pathogen spillover between human and non-human animals. “Some of these diseases have existed for millennia, whereas others are emerging or reemerging, gaining the ability to jump between species and overloading traditional methods of disease surveillance and prevention”(Cook et al.). This highlights how long diseases have been passed between humans and animals. This varies from being due to handling, to the consumption of the animal, as well as being bit by the animal. A very wide array of infectious diseases common to humans result from animal domestication.