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Major zoonotic infections

Last Updated July 26, 2024

Major zoonotic infections

The main zoonotic infectious diseases that require attention in Japan are shown in the table.
Click on the name of the disease to go to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare website, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases website, or the Yokohama City Public Health Center site.

Major zoonotic infections
Name of disease	Main animals involved	Main symptoms of animals	Main routes of infection	Main symptoms of a person
Rabies (outside site)	Dogs, cats, and others	Madness or paralysis, death from coma	Bite	If sick, neurological symptoms, coma death
Aum disease (outside site)	Dogs, cats, and others	Diarrhea, loss of energy	Inhalation of pathogens in feces	Symptoms similar to a cold
Leptospirasis (outside site)	Dogs and others	Nephritis	Contact with urine	Fever, liver and kidney damage
Capnocyteferga Canimolus infection (outside site)	Dogs and cats	Most are asymptomatic	Bite, scratch	In rare cases, severe cases include sepsis and meningitis.
Colinebatterium-Ulcerance infectious disease (outside site)	Dogs, cats, and others	Sneeze, runny nose, eyes and skin suppuration	Contact with infected animals, droplets	Symptoms similar to a cold, abscess
Salmonellasis (outside site)	Dogs, cats, birds, etc.	Most are asymptomatic	Pathogens in feces enter the mouth (food, etc.)	Gastroenteritis
Q Heat (outside site)	Dogs, cats, and others	Most are asymptomatic	Inhalation of pathogens in urine, feces, placenta, etc.	Symptoms like influenza
Echinococcus disease (outside site)	Dogs and others	Most are asymptomatic	The pathogen in the feces enters the mouth	Hepatomalarge, abdominal pain, liver dysfunction
Highly pathogenic avian influenza	Birds and Others	Sudden death, loss of energy, diarrhea	The pathogen in the feces enters the mouth	Fever, cough, pneumonia
Severe febrile thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) (outside site)	Dogs, cats, and others	Fever, loss of appetite	It is bitten by a tick carrying the virus	Fever, gastrointestinal symptoms, death if severe