The Agriculture Department finds good use for millions of dollars to monitor animals and protect people

Federal Drive with Tom Temin

The Agriculture Department has a new initiative to conduct surveillance. It wants to catch potential COVID-19 and other zoonotically originating diseases by keeping on top of animals susceptible to them. It's working on what officials call a strategic framework for an early warning system. For more, Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked to the associate administrator for USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Dr. Michael Watson.

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