Surveillance for Early Detection of High-Consequence Pests and Pathogens

Surveillance is one of the core activities national organizations responsible for human, animal, or plant health, with goal demonstrating absence infection infestation, determining presence distribution and/or detecting as early possible exotic emerging pests and pathogens that may be harmful to agriculture environment. a tool establish pest pathogen, monitor trends, facilitate mitigation control provide data use in risk analysis, substantiate rationale sanitary measures, assurances trading partners, producers, public. The type surveillance applied depends on objectives surveillance, available sources, resources, outputs needed support decision-making.