WHO recommended surveillance standards, Second edition

National coordination of communicable disease surveillance

Explanatory notes

Sample format

Surveillance activities: criteria and WHO Department

Communicable disease contacts in Regional Offices

AIDS
Anthrax

Brucellosis

Cholera
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Dengue fever

Diphtheria
Dracunculiasis

Ebola-Marburg viral diseases
Japanese encephalitis

Lymphatic filariasis

Haemophilus influenzae type b disease

Acute viral hepatitis
HIV infection

Influenza

Lassa fever
Legionellosis
Cutaneous leishmaniasis
Leishmania/HIV co-infections
Visceral leishmaniasis
Leprosy
Leptospirosis

Malaria
Measles
Meningococcal disease
Viral meningitis

Onchocerciasis

Pertussis
Plague
Poliomyelitis

Rabies

Salmonellosis
Schistosomiasis
Syphilis

Tetanus, neonatal
African trypanosomiasis
American trypanosomiasis
Tuberculosis

Scrub typhus

Yellow fever

Acute haemorrhagic fever syndrome
Acute lower respiratory tract infections (aLRTI) and pneumonia
Acute (watery) diarrhoea
Acute (bloody) diarrhoea
Antimicrobial resistance
Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance
Foodborne diseases
Sexually transmitted diseases /syndromes