Translations:Surveillance course participant/50/en

Doing surveillance for diseases that we DO have is easy to understand. Knowing how much disease we have, and where it is, is important. Decision-makers have to decide how much budget is needed for disease control activities, and where it should be spent. Finding every case of a particular disease becomes extremely important at the end of an eradication program, or where the disease is very important for public health reasons (such as rabies).