Countries need to spend billions of dollars more on veterinary and other animal health services to curb the threat of catastrophes such as mass livestock culls or even a human pandemic, the head of the World Organisation for Animal Health (Woah) has recommended.
Public and private sectors need to raise investment, while governments should beware the false economy of cutting animal health spending to divert resources to security budgets, Emmanuelle Soubeyran said in an interview.
Deadly outbreaks of Ebola and rodent-borne hantavirus this year have highlighted the threat of so-called zoonotic conditions that spill over from livestock or wild creatures to humans.
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