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A Review of Zoonotic Disease Surveillance Supported by the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center
Author(s) -
Burke R. L.,
Kronmann K. C.,
Daniels C. C.,
Meyers M.,
Byarugaba D. K.,
Dueger E.,
Klein T. A.,
Evans B. P.,
Vest K. G.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
zoonoses and public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.87
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1863-2378
pISSN - 1863-1959
DOI - 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2011.01440.x
Subject(s) - rift valley fever , zoonosis , disease surveillance , leptospirosis , environmental health , transmission (telecommunications) , dengue fever , brucellosis , public health , malaria , influenza a virus subtype h5n1 , one health , virology , medicine , outbreak , virus , immunology , nursing , engineering , electrical engineering
Summary The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC), Division of Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System conducts disease surveillance through a global network of US Department of Defense research laboratories and partnerships with foreign ministries of agriculture, health and livestock development in over 90 countries worldwide. In 2010, AFHSC supported zoonosis survey efforts were organized into four main categories: (i) development of field assays for animal disease surveillance during deployments and in resource limited environments, (ii) determining zoonotic disease prevalence in high‐contact species which may serve as important reservoirs of diseases and sources of transmission, (iii) surveillance in high‐risk human populations which are more likely to become exposed and subsequently infected with zoonotic pathogens and (iv) surveillance at the human–animal interface examining zoonotic disease prevalence and transmission within and between human and animal populations. These efforts have aided in the detection, identification and quantification of the burden of zoonotic diseases such as anthrax, brucellosis, Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever, dengue fever, Hantaan virus, influenza, Lassa fever, leptospirosis, melioidosis, Q fever, Rift Valley fever, sandfly fever Sicilian virus, sandfly fever Naples virus, tuberculosis and West Nile virus, which are of military and public health importance. Future zoonotic surveillance efforts will seek to develop local capacity for zoonotic surveillance focusing on high risk populations at the human–animal interface.