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Geographic Ranges of Zoonotic Mammal Hosts. Mammal reservoirs of zoonotic diseases are globally distributed, with noteworthy hotspots in Amazonia and Eurasia. Overlapping geographic ranges of mammal species recognized to carry one or more zoonotic diseases, with counts of unique host species (gold bars) and unique zoonotic pathogens (red bars) found within 30° latitudinal and longitudinal bands. This map depicts 5007 total wild mammal species from 27 orders.
