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Disease surveillance is an epidemiological practice by which the spread of disease is monitored in order to establish patterns of progression. The main role of disease surveillance is to predict, observe, and minimize the harm caused by outbreak, epidemic, and pandemic situations, as well as increase knowledge about which factors contribute to such circumstances.
Syndromic surveillance is the analysis of medical data to detect or anticipate disease outbreaks.According to a CDC definition, "the term 'syndromic surveillance' applies to surveillance using health-related data that precede diagnosis and signal a sufficient probability of a case or an outbreak to warrant further public health response.
The World Health Organization realized at the start of the 21st century that it did not have the resources required to adequately respond to and prevent epidemics around the world. Thus, a "Framework for Global Outbreak and Response" was created by the Department of Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Response, and Regional Offices.
The Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS) is a "regional infectious disease surveillance network that neighboring countries worldwide are organizing to control cross-border outbreaks at their source." [1] [2] In 2012, CORDS was registered as a legal, non-profit international organization in Lyon, France. [1]
[1] [2] A brainchild of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it was launched in February 2014 by a group of 44 countries [3] and organizations including WHO. [4] It was launched in 2014 as a five-year multilateral effort with the purpose to accelerate the implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005) , [ 1 ] [ 5 ...
Tanzania’s president has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease (MVD), a highly infectious virus like Ebola that can be fatal in up to 88 per cent of cases without treatment.
National Center for Disease Prevention and Control (NCDPC; Philippines) National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC; India) Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health (DCD MOH; Malaysia) National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), future agency: Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA; Singapore) National Institute of Health (NIH; Pakistan) [15]
The Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS) is a global network of laboratories that has the purpose to monitor the spread of influenza with the aim to provide the World Health Organization with influenza control information. [1] It was established in 1952 to conduct global influenza surveillance and to inform vaccine ...