Global animal disease surveillance

Animal Surveillance: Use of Animal Health Data to Improve Global Disease Surveillance

Introduction Since the majority of emerging infectious diseases over the past several decades have been zoonotic, animal health surveillance is now recognized as a key element in predicting public health risks. Surveillance of animal populations can provide important early warnings of emerging threats to human populations from bioterrorism or naturally occurring infectious disease epidemics. Th...

Integrated Human-Animal Disease Surveillance

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Global Animal Disease Intelligence Report

Integrating animal health and foodborne disease surveillance.

The control of foodborne diseases from an animal source has become an important part of public health policy. Since the agents that cause these diseases originate in animals, Veterinary Services, as well as Public Health Services, must be involved in their control. Control programmes should be established either through cooperation between the two Services or by the consolidation of all those i...

Epidemiological models to support animal disease surveillance activities.

Epidemiological models have been used extensively as a tool in improving animal disease surveillance activities. A review of published papers identified three main groups of model applications: models for planning surveillance, models for evaluating the performance of surveillance systems and models for interpreting surveillance data as part of ongoing control or eradication programmes. Two Dan...