dr. dreyzehner. could you talk a little bit about what tweets we might need to the legislation to address this question has one health approach and what we ought to be doing better on? >> yes. first of all i completely agree there are strong protections between animal and human health disease and out rakes and i do think those principles and federal agencies people believe there is a lot of acceptance and belief in one health but you're also right that it's housed in a particular program. if there aren't large efforts underway to bring one health together i do think there's a national strategy that is now being written or completed by the white house and its purpose is to bring together animal health, plant health and human health and this is the first time the strategy has been written that way. i do think there was a lot of coming together in agencies over the last year on this and it's improving animal surveillance systems. we don't have strong animal surveillance and we talk about shortages in th

dr. dreyzehner: thank you, senator. a very important question as mr. mcgregor said in his comments about medical countermeasures and the uncertainty around having a market for those. dr. krug mentioned folks who are engaged in this area are highly committed, compassionate people, but they need certainty in the profession being there tomorrow. that has not been the case for the last 15 years. there's been a lot of questions marks raised about will the area that i devoted my life to, and really called upon after 9/11 and anthrax when we developed are more modern and responsive higher capacity public health and preparedness infrastructure, but those are festivals have evolved around that. many of them are now becoming senior. many are retiring and making decision as to whether they want to enter the field. will there be a profession for me if i decide to enter the field or to stay in it? all those things are really important. sustaining and maintaining funding is a very important. not pulling at the last minute to redirect it to some other priority is real