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)