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The German Infectious Disease Surveillance Network
Infectious disease surveillance is very important for outbreak investigations and health service planning, not to mention the all important war against (bio)-terrorism. Since 2001, a federal law has required the German "Länder" (States) to collect information on selected infectious diseases like Salmonella, Influenza, Anthrax etc. With surveillance systems already established in many European countries for decades, Germany had to catch up quickly and did manage surprisingly well to implement a good solution (
