Healthy animals are the foundation of healthy food systems. 🐖🐄🐓🐑

From public health to food security and sustainability, investing in animal health delivers benefits far beyond the farm.
✅#AnimalHealthMatters

Healthy livestock is essential for animal welfare, food safety and sustainable food production.

Just one of the many reasons why #AnimalHealthMatters ✅

#AnimalHealthMatters and here are 5⃣ reasons why! 👇

Veterinary medicines in 2025 | European Medicines Agency (EMA) 30 new medicines recommended for approval; 13 with a new active substance

The EMA approved 3⃣0⃣ new #VeterinaryMedicines in 2025 incl:
🐓12 for chickens
🐕11 for dogs
and 💉16 new vaccines

#AnimalHealthMatters
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Animal disease can directly affect the price of the food we eat.

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That's one of the many reasons why #AnimalHealthMatters

💉Preventing animal disease = Reduced food losses AND More efficient feed use

#AnimalHealthMatters

Preventing animal disease supports the farming economy 👨🌾

💶For every €1 spent on HPAI vaccination, €13 was gained for 🇫🇷 economy through loss of value averted.

#AnimalHealthMatters

Preventing animal disease reduces animal losses.

The 🇫🇷 vaccination campaign to prevent #BirdFlu in ducks is a clearcut example👇

#AnimalHealthMatters

Animal disease outbreaks can directly affect the price of the food we eat
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That's one of the many reasons why #AnimalHealthMatters

The veterinary workforce can help spare us from future pandemics – but only if we invest in it The world is at a crossroads. After years of relative quiet, avian influenza has been surging again with a ferocity not seen in decades. Other infectious diseases that had faded into the background ar...

"Veterinarians...tackle diseases that threaten human health directly as well as those that devastate livestock & wildlife, affecting food security & livelihoods.
Yet, this vital workforce is chronically underfunded," writes WOAH DG E. Soubeyran
eureporter.co/health/2025/...
#AnimalHealthMatters

We always say #AnimalHealthMatters!
But why? 👉Because it goes far beyond the farm.

🐄Healthy animals mean👨👧 healthy people and a 🌍healthier planet.

#AnimalHealthMatters and here are 5⃣ reasons why! 👇

Ignoring animal health leaves the back door wide open to the next pandemic From SARS to MERS, swine flu, Ebola, and avian influenza, animal-borne diseases have been the root cause of every major pandemic in the past century. Yet, five years on since the start of the Covid-19...

"A 2022 World Bank report estimated that investing $10–11 billion annually in zoonotic prevention, through veterinary & ecological systems, could prevent pandemics with trillion-dollar global costs."
#WorldZoonosesDay may be behind us but #AnimalHealthMatters always
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Let's make sure pets in Europe get the care and protection they deserve 🐱🐶

Dear MEPs, this Thursday we urge you to support:
✅ identification & registration of all dogs & cats
✅ microchipping
✅ respect of health & welfare requirements

#PetCare #AnimalHealthMatters

In unserer Broschüre „Unsere Milch“ zeigen wir, wie moderne Tiermedizin zur Qualitätssicherung und Nachhaltigkeit in der Milcherzeugung beiträgt.
🔗 www.bft-online.de/fileadmin/bf...
#WorldMilkDay #Tiergesundheit #Milch #Lebensmittelsicherheit #Tierwohl #UnsereMilch #BfT #AnimalHealthMatters

Interesting event today organised by Four Paws EU:
“The GAP in the CAP”

Clear message repeated by many:
#AnimalHealth is a key indicator, component and enhancer of #AnimalWelfare

#AnimalHealthMatters

🐬 Today is National Dolphin Day! The Wild Animal Health Fund supports groundbreaking research to uncover the causes and consequences of health threats facing dolphins.

wildanimalhealthfund.org/donate/

#NationalDolphinDay #marinemammals #DolphinConservation #animalhealthmatters

We're pleased to welcome our new intern Ada Raffaglio!

Ada will be helping our Communications and Public Affairs colleagues in their work as we continue to make sure EU decision-makers and everyone else understands why #AnimalHealthMatters.

Thank you Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi⁩ for the exchange this morning!
We look forward to future regular dialogue with Member States to ensure better preparedness, prevention and response to animal disease outbreaks.

Read our position paper here 👉 lnkd.in/eA38z-DJ
#AnimalHealthMatters

Improving #livestock health supports food safety and quality, while contributing to the sustainability of our food systems.
#AnimalHealthMatters 🐑🐓🐖🐄

In 2024, the EMA recommended 25 #VeterinaryMedicines for marketing authorisation – the highest ever number of recommendations in a year!

These include:
💉14 vaccines
🐕11 products for dogs
🐓8 products for chickens
#AnimalHealthMatters
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