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

• Animal Disease Report form (PDF)
• Information for Veterinarians poster, 2014 (PDF)

Leptospirosis

• Leptospirosis in Dogs (PDF)
• Leptospirosis Fact Sheet for Dog Owners (PDF)

Psittacosis

• NASPHV Compendium of Measures to Control Chlamydophila psittaci Infection Among Humans and Pet Birds (PDF)

Rabies

• City Health Information: Rabies in New York City and Human Rabies Prevention (2010) (PDF)

Tick-borne Diseases

• City Health Information: Preventing, Diagnosing and Managing Tick-Borne Diseases (June 2020) (PDF)
• Babesiosis Report 2017, NYC (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

• West Nile Virus: Information for Providers

Alerts

• Veterinary Alerts

CDC: Healthy Pets Healthy People

• For more information on diseases that affect animals and people, visit CDC: Healthy Pets Healthy People