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The principles and practices of biosurveillance, a new interdisciplinary science, were defined and described in the Handbook of Biosurveillance, edited by Michael Wagner, Andrew Moore and Ron Aryel, and published in 2006.

Biosurveillance is the science of real-time disease outbreak detection.

Its principles apply to both natural and man-made epidemics ( bioterrorism ).