Medicine
Public Health Surveillance Systems for Emerging Zoonoses
Quick fact
Modern syndromic surveillance can flag an unusual cluster of respiratory illness in a community days before laboratory confirmation, and animal health surveillance can detect a new avian influenza strain years before it causes a human pandemic.
Why this is interesting
Every year, a new virus jumps from an animal to a human somewhere on the planet. How do we know it's coming—and how do we stop it before it becomes the next pandemic?