Biosurveillance

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The monitoring of the biological environment, as for example to forestall disease. uncountable

    "“We need to have uniform biosurveillance capability to prepare not only for a pandemic, but any outbreak of infectious disease.”"

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"“We need to have uniform biosurveillance capability to prepare not only for a pandemic, but any outbreak of infectious disease.”"

Etymology

From bio- + surveillance.

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