Not too long ago the world was panicking over the new strains of the coronavirus. If you were somehow unaware, its origins have been traced to the sale of live exotic animals, such as civet cats and bats, at a market in Wuhan, China.
Indeed, a number of today's diseases have been passed on to humans by animals. Many of these diseases, called zoonoses, can be deadly and continue to claim lives every year. From HIV to Ebola, find out which other fatal diseases we've inherited from the animal kingdom in this gallery. Click on.