Disease Surveillance
The purpose of surveillance is to try to detect where disease organisms, such as bacteria and viruses, might be located in Texas in order to predict and prevent human illness. Two main types of surveillance activities are conducted.
Most disease surveillance in Texas is passive surveillance. This process relies on confirmed case reports from physicians, veterinarians, laboratories, and others. The Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory is one of the key sources of surveillance information for animal disease.
Active surveillance is a process whereby state or local agencies actually look for evidence of disease risk. For example, when trying to find if a certain virus carried by mosquitoes is in Texas, mosquitoes are collected and sent to the lab for testing. If a mosquito is positive, it means that the virus was found during testing. If a mosquito is negative, it means that the virus was not found during testing. Similar surveillance is conducted on other insects and samples from animals for a variety of diseases.
The amount of testing in the surveillance process will vary for different counties statewide. If a report indicates that an area does not have any positive test results for a particular disease, it does not necessarily mean that the disease organisms are not in that area. It just reflects that no positive tests on collected insects or other samples have been reported from that area.
Book traversal links for Disease Surveillance
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- Anderson County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Andrews County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Angelina County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Aransas County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Archer County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Armstrong County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Atascosa County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Austin County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Bailey County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Bandera County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Bastrop County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Baylor County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Bee County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Bell County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Bexar County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Blanco County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Borden County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Bosque County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Bowie County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Brazoria County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Brazos County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Brewster County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Briscoe County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Brooks County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Brown County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Burleson County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Burnet County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Caldwell County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Calhoun County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Callahan County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Cameron County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Camp County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Carson County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Cass County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Castro County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Chambers County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Cherokee County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Childress County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Clay County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Cochran County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Coke County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Coleman County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Collin County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Collingsworth County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Colorado County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Comal County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Comanche County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Concho County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Cooke County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Coryell County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Cottle County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Crane County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Crockett County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Crosby County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Culberson County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Dallam County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Dallas County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Dawson County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Deaf Smith County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Delta County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Denton County Disease Reporting Contacts
- DeWitt County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Dickens County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Dimmit County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Donley County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Duval County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Eastland County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Ector County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Edwards County Disease Reporting Contacts
- El Paso County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Ellis County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Erath County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Falls County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Fannin County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Fayette County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Fisher County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Floyd County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Foard County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Fort Bend County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Franklin County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Freestone County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Frio County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Gaines County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Galveston County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Garza County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Gillespie County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Glasscock County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Goliad County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Gonzales County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Gray County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Grayson County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Gregg County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Grimes County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Guadalupe County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hale County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hall County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hamilton County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hansford County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hardeman County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hardin County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Harris County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Harris County - Houston Disease Reporting Contacts
- Harrison County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hartley County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Haskell County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hays County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hemphill County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Henderson County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hidalgo County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hill County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hockley County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hood County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hopkins County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Houston County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Howard County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hudspeth County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hunt County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Hutchinson County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Irion County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Jack County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Jackson County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Jasper County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Jeff Davis County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Jefferson County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Jefferson County - Port Arthur Disease Reporting Contacts
- Jim Hogg County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Jim Wells County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Johnson County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Jones County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Karnes County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Kaufman County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Kendall County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Kenedy County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Kent County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Kerr County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Kimble County Disease Reporting Contacts
- King County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Kinney County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Kleberg County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Knox County Disease Reporting Contacts
- La Salle County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Lamar County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Lamb County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Lampasas County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Lavaca County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Lee County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Leon County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Liberty County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Limestone County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Lipscomb County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Live Oak County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Llano County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Loving County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Lubbock County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Lynn County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Madison County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Marion County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Martin County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Mason County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Matagorda County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Maverick County Disease Reporting Contacts
- McCulloch County Disease Reporting Contacts
- McLennan County Disease Reporting Contacts
- McMullen County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Medina County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Menard County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Midland County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Milam County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Mills County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Mitchell County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Montague County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Montgomery County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Moore County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Morris County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Motley County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Nacogdoches County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Navarro County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Newton County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Nolan County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Nueces County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Ochiltree County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Oldham County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Orange County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Palo Pinto County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Panola County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Parker County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Parmer County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Pecos County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Polk County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Potter County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Presidio County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Rains County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Randall County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Reagan County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Real County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Red River County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Reeves County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Refugio County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Roberts County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Robertson County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Rockwall County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Runnels County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Rusk County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Sabine County Disease Reporting Contacts
- San Augustine County Disease Reporting Contacts
- San Jacinto County Disease Reporting Contacts
- San Patricio County Disease Reporting Contacts
- San Saba County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Schleicher County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Scurry County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Shackelford County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Shelby County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Sherman County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Smith County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Somervell County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Starr County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Stephens County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Sterling County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Stonewall County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Sutton County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Swisher County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Tarrant County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Taylor County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Terrell County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Terry County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Throckmorton County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Titus County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Upshur County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Tom Green County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Travis County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Trinity County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Tyler County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Upton County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Uvalde County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Val Verde County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Van Zandt County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Victoria County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Walker County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Waller County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Ward County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Washington County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Webb County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Wharton County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Wheeler County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Wichita County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Wilbarger County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Wilson County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Willacy County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Williamson County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Winkler County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Wise County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Wood County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Yoakum County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Young County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Zapata County Disease Reporting Contacts
- Zavala County Disease Reporting Contacts
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Disease Surveillance and Epidemiology Section
Mail Code: 3082
P.O. BOX 149347
Austin, TX 78714-9347
United States
Disease Surveillance and Epidemiology Section
Moreton Building, Suite M-631
1100 West 49th Street
Austin, TX 78756-3199
United States