Towards Better Disease Detection, Surveillance and Diagnosis

Animal Health Services need access to early and timely information about disease outbreaks to take appropriate actions that limit disease spread and its negative impacts. The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) sets international standards related to notification and surveillance, as set out in Chapters 1.1, 1.3 and 1.4 of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code and Aquatic Animal Health Code. Robust diagnostic capacity is also critical to meet the notification obligations of WOAH’s Members. The Observatory assessed the uptake of these standards by Members, in parallel with developing and updating indicators using internal and external data sources.