This is a real-world medical entrance exam question, please give the true answer based on the question and selection. Topic name: None, Subject name: Social & Preventive Medicine
All of the following are zoonosis, except: 
Select and explain. 
A. Plague, B. Japanese Encephalitis (JE), C. HIV, D. Tuberculosis (TB)
C: HIV
Answer: C: HIV 
Explanation: Zoonosis is defined by the Joint FAO/WHO Expe Committee as 'those diseases and infections which are naturally transmitted between veebrate animals and man'. There are more than 150 diseases and infections having reservoir as animals and is communicable to man. These zoonotic diseases may be caused by viruses, bacteriae, rickettisiae, protozoa, helminths, anthropods, fungi or insects. HIV is not a zoonotic disease while the other three infections are zoonotic diseases. The human immunodeficiency virus has only human as reservoirs. Ref: Park Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 19th Edition, Pages 642, 688