On the occasion of World Zoonoses Day-2021, a National level online Awareness Quiz on Zoonoses was organised by Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandary, Dau Shri Vasudev Cahndrakar Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya (DSVCKV), Durg under the guidance of Vice-Chancellor Dr N PDakshinkar. More than 250 participants comprises of UG and PG students, Colleges and Universities faculty members and field veterinarians from different states of India including Chhattisgarh, MP, UP, HP, Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Telangana, Tripura, Assam, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar participated in the online quiz with enthusism.

 

According to information, the quiz was successfully organised by committee comprising of Dr S K Tiwari (Chairman), Dean, VCA, Durg, Dr Sanjay Shakya (Organising Secretary), Professor and Head, Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, VCA, Durg and Dr Anil Patyal (Coordinator), Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, VCA, Durg (CG) that was covered by University PRO Dr Dilip Choudhary. It may be noted that every year World Zoonoses Day is celebrated on July 6 to commemorate the work of French Biologist Louis Pasteur, who successfully administered the first-ever vaccine against rabies, a zoonotic disease, on July 6, 1885. This day presents an opportunity to create awareness among masses about zoonotic diseases that can spread between animals and people.

 

This year’s theme of World Zoonoses Day was Let’s Break the Chain of Zoonotic Transmission. Zoonotic diseases are those diseases that can be transmitted to humans from animals and the first infected human transmits the infectious agent to at least one other individual, who, in turn, infects others. Recent work has confirmed that 1,415 species of infectious agents reported to cause diseases in humans, among which 61% are zoonotic and among 175 emerging infectious diseases, 75% are of zoonotic in nature.