The Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (VETLAB) Network is a global network of national veterinary laboratories coordinated by the Animal Production and Health Section (APH) of the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture. The network currently comprises 72 laboratories in 46 African and 19 Asian countries and is now working to expand to Central and Eastern Europe, the Caribbean and Central and South America. The VETLAB laboratories and the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre’s Animal Production and Health Laboratory work with each other, including experts from the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre, to use nuclear, nuclear-derived and other methods for monitoring, early detection, diagnosis and control of transboundary animal and zoonotic diseases. Recent network activities have focused, inter alia, on support to COVID-19 testing, as well as lumpy skin disease and African Swine Fever in South Asia, rabbit hemorrhagic disease in West Africa and highly pathogenic avian influenza. More information on the network is provided in the latest version of the APH newsletter (no. 73). The newsletter, issued twice a year, gives an overview of past and upcoming training courses, meetings, projects, news stories and publications. See https://www.iaea.org/publications/search/type/animal-production-and-health-newsletter or contact [email protected] for more information.