The U.S.-Mexico Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project: Establishing Bi-national Border Surveillance
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The U.S.-Mexico Border Infectious
Disease Surveillance Project:
Establishing Bi-national Border
Surveillance
In 1997, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
the Mexican Secretariat of Health, and border health officials
began the development of the Border Infectious Disease Surveillance
(BIDS) project, a surveillance system for infectious
diseases along the U.S.-Mexico border. During a 3-year period,
a binational team implemented an active, sentinel surveillance
system for hepatitis and febrile exanthems at 13 clinical sites.
The network developed surveillance protocols, trained nine
surveillance coordinators, established serologic testing at four
Mexican border laboratories, and created agreements for data
sharing and notification of selected diseases and outbreaks.
BIDS facilitated investigations of dengue fever in Texas-
Tamaulipas and measles in California�Baja California. BIDS
demonstrates that a binational effort with local, state, and federal
participation can create a regional surveillance system that
crosses an international border. Reducing administrative, infrastructure,
and political barriers to cross-border public health
collaboration will enhance the effectiveness of disease prevention
projects such as BIDS.
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