Monitoring animal health and preventing animal disease outbreaks is vital to the economy and safety of the food supply. Production of healthy livestock helps to ensure a safe food supply and keep consumer prices stable.

Animal disease outbreaks can cost millions of dollars due to animal slaughters, trade halts, and subsequent disease eradication efforts. Animal diseases with human health implications can adversely impact public health, global trade, and the stability of the agricultural segment of the economy. Healthy animals are more likely to result in:

•Safer food supplies

•Higher farm productivity (including increased numbers of offspring)

•Reduced environmental impacts

•Reduced use of antibiotics

•Improved animal well-being

The global pandemic has demonstrated to the entire world that trying to solve today’s issues and preparing for those arising tomorrow cannot be accomplished with yesterday's approaches. Therefore, ‘One Health’, a concept raised centuries ago by Hippocrates, which highlights the need for a joined-up approach to tackling health-related issues, becomes prominent. We are living in a time of ‘One World, One Health’ and we must come together to devise innovative, forward-looking and multisectoral solutions to the challenges we face now and in the future.

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• Why Animal Health Matters
  Protecting animal health is an important step to addressing the challenges and it is a step that deserves greater attention. Like the millions of animals who benefit from veterinary care, the role played by the animal health sector in society is often overlooked, yet its impact over the years has been truly revolutionary. We are living in a time of ‘One World, One Health’ and we must come together to devise innovative, forward-looking and multisectoral solutions to the challenges we face now and in the future.
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