Early warning system for infectious diseases

Infectious diseases are among the most serious health issues in the world. The emergence of these diseases affected by various factors such as multiple human, biological, climate, and ecological determinants. Within the last decade, the world has witnessed the global outbreak of infectious diseases. This situation highlights the need for an early warning disease detection system that would be able to detect, identify, and contain pathogens with epidemic potential. This article presents how Early Warning System (EWS) could be a proactive system that would be able to predict infectious disease outbreaks and detect the sudden increase of any livestock disease with the potentials to become epidemic before spreading.