Government “not sufficiently prioritising threat” from animal diseases like COVID-19, avian flu, swine fever In a report today the Public Accounts Committee says Government is not sufficiently prioritising the “significant threat to UK health, trade, farming and rural communities” posed by animal diseases. The risk of a zoonotic (animal sourced) disease is real and the consequences can be devastating: the Foot and Mouth disease outbreak in 2001, more recently Avian Influenza and of course COVID-19 showed the breadth of impact a zoonotic disease outbreak can have across society.
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