Acute Communicable Disease Control
Department of Public Health
County of Los Angeles
313 N. Figueroa Street, Room 212
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone:(213) 240-7941
Fax:(213) 482-4856
E-Mail:acdc2@ph.lacounty.gov

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Vector-borne & Zoonotic Diseases

• Vector-Borne Disease: Disease that results from an infection transmitted to humans and other animals by blood-feeding anthropods, such as mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas. Examples of vector-borne diseases include Dengue fever, West Nile Virus, Lyme disease, and malaria.



• Zoonotic Disease: a disease that can be transmitted from animals to people or, more specifically, a disease that normally exists in animals but that can infect humans. There are multitudes of zoonotic diseases.

Vector-borne Diseases

• Dengue Fever
• Lyme Disease
• Malaria
• Plague *
• Relapsing Fever
• Tularemia * (Rabbit Fever)
• Typhus * (Murine, Endemic)
• West Nile Virus

Zoonotic Diseases

• Anthrax
• Brucellosis
• Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
• Listeriosis
• Psittacosis
• Rabies
• Salmonellosis
• Trichinosis
• Q-Fever

     * may be considered vector-borne or zoonotic