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Zoonotic diseases: surveillance of laboratory confirmed cases

Surveillance of laboratory-reported zoonotic infections is undertaken by PHE.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 17 November 2010
• Last updated: 21 January 2019
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  1. 21 January 2019

     Updated text and removed reference to Public Health Wales.

  2. 17 November 2010

     First published.

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Zoonotic diseases: surveillance of laboratory confirmed cases

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National surveillance of a wide range of laboratory confirmed human infections is maintained for several thousand species, subspecies and subtypes of microbial pathogens, of which zoonotic micro-organisms are a comparatively small proportion.