Zoonotic and Vectorborne Diseases: Information for Providers
The Zoonotic, Influenza, and Vectorborne Disease Unit (ZIVDU) conducts disease surveillance, investigations, education, and consultations with human and animal health care providers with the goal of preventing and controlling human illness due to zoonotic and vectorborne diseases, influenza, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
Zoonotic Diseases are diseases caused by infectious agents that can be transmitted between (or are shared by) animals and humans.
Vectorborne Diseases are diseases that can be transmitted through the bite of an arthropod (insect, tick, mosquito, etc.) to humans or other animals.
Influenza is caused by a virus that is transmitted between people when they cough or sneeze. Occasionally, it is transmitted from animals (usually birds) to humans.
Information for Veterinarians
Leptospirosis
Psittacosis
- NASPHV Compendium of Measures to Control Chlamydophila psittaci Infection Among Humans and Pet Birds (PDF)
Rabies
Tick-borne Diseases
- Babesiosis Report 2017, NYC (PDF)
- How to Prevent Tick Bites Brochure (PDF)
Other Languages:Español - City Health Information: Preventing and Managing Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseasse (July 2012) (PDF)
- Tick-Borne Diseases in the New York City Area: A Physician's Reference Manual (PDF)
- CDC Tickborne Diseases of the United States: A Reference Manual for Health Care Providers (PDF)
- IDSA Clinical Practice Guidelines
- CDC Diagnosis and Management of Tickborne Rickettsial Diseases: A Guide for Health Care Providers(PDF)
West Nile Virus
Alerts
CDC: Healthy Pets Healthy People
- For more information on diseases that affect animals and people, visit CDC: Healthy Pets Healthy People