Artificial Intelligence in Veterinary Public Health: Predicting Outbreaks Before They Happen

Veterinary public health is entering a new era; the same technologies that power online shopping recommendations, language translation and facial recognition are now being applied to animal health and zoonotic disease control. Under the broad term “artificial intelligence” (AI), tools such as machine learning and deep learning are being used to analyse complex datasets and build prediction models for animal disease outbreaks and zoonotic risks (Guo et al., 2023).