biosurveillance en · NOUN
Etymology
From bio- + surveillance.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The monitoring of the biological environment, as for example to forestall disease.
“We need to have uniform biosurveillance capability to prepare not only for a pandemic, but any outbreak of infectious disease.”
2007 July 18, Gardiner Harris, “Limited Capacity Is Seen in Flu Defenses”, in New York Times: