biosurveillance
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
bio- + surveillance
Noun[edit]
biosurveillance (uncountable)
- The monitoring of the biological environment, as for example to forestall disease.
- 2007 July 18, Gardiner Harris, “Limited Capacity Is Seen in Flu Defenses”, in New York Times[1]:
- “We need to have uniform biosurveillance capability to prepare not only for a pandemic, but any outbreak of infectious disease.”