Abstract This article explains how making a disease notifiable by law is core component of robust and well‐functioning health system. Mechanisms to rapidly detect report existing or emerging infectious diseases in timely manner are key control elimination. Using malaria Asia‐Pacific as case point, we explore different policy considerations involved disease. These include the timing legislative ...

This article reports on a comparative study of the national notifiable infectious diseases surveillance systems currently employed in the United States of America, Australia and the Islamic Republic of Iran, with the aim ofdeveloping a modified system specific to the needs of the Iranian health system. Features of the surveillance systems examined in each country included: official data gatheri...

In 1911 Alfred Whitmore and C.S. Krishnaswami noticed that morphine addicts in Rangoon were afflicted by a lethal illness bearing a striking similarity to glanders!,2. Autopsy findings were characterized by widespread caseous consolidation of the lungs with abscesses in the liver, spleen, kidney and subcutaneous tissues. Glanders, an infection caused by Burkholderia mallei, is predominantly, a ...

Bacillus anthracis is a zoonotic agent causing anthrax, a notifiable disease in animals. The last anthrax outbreak among cattle in Germany occurred in April 2014 in Saxony-Anhalt. Here we report a high-quality genome sequence of the Bacillus anthracis strain 14RA5914 Dobichau isolated from the spleen of a dead cow.

Burkholderia mallei is a zoonotic agent causing glanders, a notifiable disease in equines. During the past decades glanders emerged, and the Kingdom of Bahrain reported outbreaks to the World Organization of Animal Health in 2010 and 2011. This paper presents the complete genome sequence of the Burkholderia mallei strain 11RR2811 Bahrain1.

All the Nordic countries have a basis for their surveillance and disease control in ruminants in national legislation and regulations listing notifiable diseases of concern to the countries. The Nordic countries are a disease-free zone comparing to other parts of the world and the aim of the surveillance is to keep that status and be able to document it. Following is a short summary from each c...

Human brucellosis is an infectious disease, caused by different species of the genus Brucella. It a mandatory notifiable disease in most countries, including Morocco, and thus requires special vigilance on part health agencies. Prevention this based surveillance prevention risk factors. Its management serological or other diagnostic tests. The National Laboratory Epidemic Diseases received 17 b...

The Summary of Notifiable Diseases - United States, 2011 contains the official statistics, in tabular and graphic form, for the reported occurrence of nationally notifiable infectious diseases in the United States for 2011. Unless otherwise noted, the data are final totals for 2011 reported as of June 30, 2012. These statistics are collected and compiled from reports sent by state health depart...