Reduction of the worldwide incidence of a disease to zero as a result of deliberate efforts.

Any undertaking whether for profit or not and whether public or private, carrying out any operation of production, manufacture, processing, storage, transport or distribution of...

a vector in which an agent undergoes some kind of development or multiplication (biological)

The ability of any infectious agent to produce disease. The virulence of a microorganism (such as a bacterium or virus) is a measure of the severity of the disease it is capable...

Surveillance that complements indicator-based surveillance by continuously scanning the Internet and other communication media to detect information that might lead to the...

an invertebrate animal (usually an arthropod) that transmits infectious agents to vertebrates. In infectious disease epidemiology, an insect or any living carrier that...

The occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy.

See "serotype"

Facts, measurements, recordings, records, or observations about the world collected by scientists and others, with a minimum of contextual interpretation. Data may be in any...

the species host in which the sexual reproduction phase of a parasite takes place (synonym with final host)

The process of collecting and evaluating information on hazards and conditions leading to their presence to decide which are significant for food safety and therefore should be...

[L. extendere, to stretch out]Widespread. In cancer, widely metastatic.

Linked data is a set of design principles for sharing machine-readable data on the Web for use by public administrations, business and citizens.

a host which is a common source of an infectious agent to other animals, including humans.

sin. black fly, blackfly, pl. black flies, blackflies. Small size flies, members of Simuliidae family (order Diptera). Females of majority of species require a blood meal for...

is the perpetuation, for the foreseeable future, of an invasive species within an area following introduction.

vector-borne zoonotic diseases, caused by a tick-borne virus (Orthonairovirus) of the Nairoviridae family (Order Bunyavirales); CCHF virus is transmitted to people either by...

A known disease which occurs intermittently in an irregular or haphazard pattern.

A description of the methods used for disseminating surveillance information during and after surveillance including whether web-access is possible and the methods used for data...

Comparison of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms can be compared across several isolates and the differences can be used to create trees depicting relatedness among the isolates.