TY - JOUR
KW - Covid-19
KW - infectious disease surveillance
KW - Germany
AU - K Schaten
AU - F Burckhardt
AB - This paper gives an overview of the experience on state and local health authority level that the German human surveillance system had so far in integrating the newly emerging disease SARS-CoV-2 into the existing surveillance framework. The magnitude of cases within a short time frame stretched the surveillance system at federal, state and local level. The electronic infectious disease notification system SurvNet@RKI has been flexible enough to adapt to the situation, but has limitations for large-scale contact tracing. Despite it being a zoonotic disease, a One Health approach has not been implemented yet. A formal evaluation of the German disease surveillance across administrative levels and technical capabilities as well as implementation of resulting recommendations would improve the response to similar situations in the future.
BT - Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift
CY - Hannover
DA - 02/2021
DO - 10.2376/1439-0299-2020-25
LA - English
N2 - This paper gives an overview of the experience on state and local health authority level that the German human surveillance system had so far in integrating the newly emerging disease SARS-CoV-2 into the existing surveillance framework. The magnitude of cases within a short time frame stretched the surveillance system at federal, state and local level. The electronic infectious disease notification system SurvNet@RKI has been flexible enough to adapt to the situation, but has limitations for large-scale contact tracing. Despite it being a zoonotic disease, a One Health approach has not been implemented yet. A formal evaluation of the German disease surveillance across administrative levels and technical capabilities as well as implementation of resulting recommendations would improve the response to similar situations in the future.
PB - Schlütersche Fachmedien GmbH
PP - Hannover
PY - 2021
SP - 1
EP - 6
T1 - Surveillance and disease control of a newly-emerging disease from the perspective of a State Health Institute using the example of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
T2 - Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift
TI - Surveillance and disease control of a newly-emerging disease from the perspective of a State Health Institute using the example of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
TT - Meldewesen und Kontrolle einer neu auftretenden Erkrankung aus der Sicht eines Landesgesundheitsamtes am Beispiel der SARS-CoV-2-Pandemie
VL - 134
SN - 1439-0299
ER -