Early Warning Infectious Disease Surveillance (EWIDS)

The Early Warning Infectious Disease Program (EWIDS) is a unique collaboration of state, federal and international partners who collaborate to provide rapid and effective laboratory confirmation of urgent infectious disease case reports in the border regions of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Activities can include assessing surveillance and laboratory capacity on each side of the international border, improving electronic sharing of laboratory information, maintaining a database of all sentinel/clinical labs, and working to develop and agree on a list of notifiable conditions.