In a recent visit to South Sudan, we met with livestock herders as they were tending to their livestock in a cattle camp outside of Juba. One of the most memorable conversations was with a woman who reported how most of her cattle were sick, and how her family members had also gotten sick. How so? She shared harrowing insights on how transmissible diseases took the lives of their livestock, facing the community with the unwanted decision to take the animal carcasses as food, as they had no other source of nutrition, and then how they suffered diseases themselves as a result.