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In a manuscript by Voyles et al., the group describes the need for international infrastructure to facilitate rapid responses for emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) in wildlife. This paper outlines how the internationally coordinated networks that are already available (e.g. to address EIDs in human, livestock and agricultural crop systems) would provide rapid and data-driven response systems critical for successful intervention during disease outbreaks in wildlife. The study distils the key aspects needed in a proposed international institutional system and describes how addressing EIDs in wild populations will safeguard against species extinction, protect public health and ensure ecosystem functioning. …