Epidemic-prone diseases

The recurrence of well-characterized epidemic-prone diseases such as cholera, dengue, influenza, measles, meningitis, shigellosis, and yellow fever... 

The challenges that epidemic-prone diseases, including avian influenza, pose to WHO are ... 

Syndromic surveillance is simple and often the only available surveillance tool at the primary health care level when laboratory confirmation of disease is not possible [41], It allows detection of potential outbreaks of targeted diseases earlier than with the diagnosis-based routine surveillance system and leads to field investigations for confirmation and control [19, 20], Experience has shown that reporting units at the primary health care level are not the most appropriate source of notification for early detection of some epidemic-prone diseases. Some specific syndromes may be seen first in emergency departments, private clinics, or pharmacies [21],... 

WHO (2000). WHO Report on Global Surveillance of Epidemic-prone Infections, Diseases. Chapter 4 Cholera. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 18 pp. 

We must be aware, however, that widening development gaps, the collapse of public health infrastructure, poverty, urbanization, civil strife, environmental change and degradation, and the globalization of travel and trade can contribute to the new challenges posed by epidemic-prone and emerging communicable diseases worldwide. 

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