In the current fiscal environment there is also concern from some
public health offices that dollars allocated to detecting biological threats through BioWatch may be competing with the ones needed to provide complementary information to help detect threats — such as picking up any uptick in certain symptoms at hospitals through
robust health surveillance.
Given the critical role of the veterinary profession in
public health, the CVMA is committed to
robust animal disease
surveillance programs, disaster planning and other
public health initiatives.