Zoo Noses

Zoonoses are infectious diseases transmitted from animals. There are a lot of them and they are really random, but as I happen to like random diseases, they're pretty cool. Carriers can be pretty much anything, from cats to bats to fleas to sheep. Zoonoses include the common cat scratch disease and Lyme disease (both of which have been cases of the day) to really obscure ones like Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and psittacosis. I mean, who would think that you could get a disease from handling a sheep's placenta (Q fever)? Anyway, I just wanted to mention them because though memorizing the list kind of sucks, these weird diseases that I will probably never see have their charm.