Thank you.
I'll move now to the topic that's already come up in several lines of questioning, because it's so important for us as committee members to understand this. We heard testimony from Dr. Komal that really there's a negligible risk of transmission of pathogens or transmission of disease with incidental contact. There would need to be prolonged contact between humans and animals for that to occur on-farm. We heard contradictory testimony from Dr. Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt, a professor of veterinary medicine at the Université de Montréal. We are hearing today that there are multiple pathogens.
I will ask our veterinarians to weigh in on this issue, starting with you, Dr. Weese, and then going to the CVMA. If you have contradictory positions, I'd like to hear from you both. This is important for us to understand as a committee. There are such huge implications to the potential of this risk. I think it's something we need to understand.
Scott, please go ahead.