Phys.org  July 15, 2024 The eco-epidemiology of zoonoses is often oversimplified to host-pathogen interactions while findings derived from global datasets are rarely directly transferable to smaller-scale contexts. Researchers in Austria compiled a dataset of naturally occurring zoonotic interactions in Austria, spanning 1975–2022 and introduced zoonotic web to describe the complex relationships between zoonotic agents, their hosts, vectors, food, and environmental sources. They demonstrated that the most influential zoonotic sources were human, cattle, chicken, and some meat products confirming the increased probability of zoonotic spillover at human-cattle and human-food interfaces. They characterized six communities of zoonotic agent sharing driven by highly […]