global security issues; food for an increasing world population, access to international trade, species conservation and protection of those endangered, and economic growth in developing and re-organizing nations. Because many animal disease agents are zoonotic (transmissible between humans and animals, causing infection in both species), their management and prevention are crucial to improving public health on a global scale. The company focuses on developing molecular diagnostic tests, therapeutics, and vaccines in the belief that better technologies and methodology need to be implemented to help control emerging diseases in animals and in humans, if not these diseases in animals will likely continue to cause serious and growing problems in terms of economics, human health and biodiversity.