Davis, Debra P.. "5 Detection, Data Collection, and Reporting." Emerging Animal Diseases: Global Markets, Global Safety: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2002.
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Emerging Animal Diseases: Global Markets, Global Safety - A Workshop Summary
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Bunning noted that surveillance and surveillance analysis could be better centralized. Various agencies could continue to collect the data, which would be funneled into one agency and put under a manageable scheme. When a veterinarian “is sitting out there at his desk and he wants to know something about foot-and-mouth, he doesn’t have to go to 27 different sites and miss the very site he wants. There ought to be a way to do it, and we have the technology,” he noted.
