Translations:Pelsa Facilitator Manual/65/en
Defined priority syndromes is a way of detecting important problems but why are some diseases considered more important than others?
- risk to human health (like rabies or anthrax)
- risk of being very infectious (like AI)
- risk of being exotic disease that we don't have (and don't want) (like FMD)
- risk of huge losses (like AI or hog cholera)
- risk of significant production losses (like brucellosis)