Surveillance for Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Canadian Perspective

Emerging zoonotic disease surveillance is inherently interdisciplinary, requiring co-operation between public health, clinical medicine, veterinary medicine, and ecology. Each field comes with a unique knowledge base that typically focuses on either animal or human health, but rarely both. This review is targeted towards public health practitioners and policymakers, among whom it is felt that knowledge of zoonotic disease surveillance is limited. This review is also limited to zoonotic disease and zoonotic disease surveillance as it pertains to Canada.