High real-time reporting of domestic and wild animal diseases following rollout of mobile phone reporting system in Kenya Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
BACKGROUND: To improve early detection of emerging infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), many of them zoonotic, numerous electronic animal disease-reporting systems have been piloted but not implemented because of cost, lack of user friendliness, and data insecurity. In Kenya, we developed and rolled out an open-source mobile phone-based domestic and wild animal disease reporting system and collected data over two years to ...