Establishing resilient animal health systems to reduce biological threats

摘要

Biological threats have no borders. For millennia, infectious diseases have spread between animals (both domestic and wild) and humans, resulting in plagues and pandemics of enormous social, economic or environmental impacts. All around the world, animal disease agents, including those transmissible to humans, have the potential to escape by accident from laboratories or to be used as biological weapons because of their wide-ranging economic, health and social impacts and their potential availability.