• 2.5 billion people are infected each year by animal-borne disease.
• 2.7 million people die each year from animal-borne diseases.
• Animal-borne diseases are the number one source of global infectious disease.
• 60 percent of known infectious diseases in people are spread from animals.
• 75 percent of new or emerging infectious diseases are spread from animals.
• No integrated global detection and rapid response service exists.
• Responses are delayed. Lives are lost.

(CDC 2019 & PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2014)