Animal, human and plant health are interconnected in a way that a health threat to one becomes a threat to all; and animals are crucial to human well-being and livelihoods. The pandemics have demonstrated this. Pandemics have something in common: all of them originated in animals. For the sake of animal health, for our economies and communities that depend on animals, and for our own health as humans, the veterinary workforce has a key role to play in all endeavours against zoonoses, and pandemics in general. We must remember animal health workers are present in different strata of society and facilitate the lives that we live.

Animal, human and plant health are interconnected in a way that a health threat to one becomes a threat to all; and animals are crucial to human well-being and livelihoods. The pandemics have demonstrated this. Pandemics have something in common: all of them originated in animals. For the sake of animal health, for our economies and communities that depend on animals, and for our own health as humans, the veterinary workforce has a key role to play in all endeavours against zoonoses, and pandemics in general. We must remember animal health workers are present in different strata of society and facilitate the lives that we live.