Analysing WAHIS Animal Health Immediate Notifications to Understand Global Reporting Trends and Measure Early Warning Capacities (2005–2021)

Table 1

Number of immediate notification reports of the top-10 diseases between 1 January 2005 and 8 February 2021.

Disease	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021^‡	Total
High pathogenicity avian influenza (poultry)	11	60	33	27	12	20	18	15	12	30	52	67	50	42	19	68	24	560
African swine fever	1	1	9	3	2	4	1	3	3	12	12	16	43	83	90	61	5	349
Foot-and-mouth disease	11	11	23	16	33	24	26	18	19	21	23	14	30	40	20	12	2	343
Newcastle disease	26	16	12	10	17	16	12	9	9	6	4	7	9	7	15	8	0	183
Low pathogenic avian influenza (poultry) (2006–2021)^†	0	2	8	10	15	10	10	12	18	15	15	15	11	10	11	13	2	177
Influenza A viruses of high pathogenicity (non-poultry including wild birds) (2017-)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	52	25	9	56	31	174
Bluetongue	1	12	13	14	20	8	6	2	2	16	12	17	7	7	5	16	1	159
Anthrax	2	4	2	8	4	5	7	13	6	12	8	19	14	17	16	12	0	149
West Nile fever	2	2	0	4	1	9	4	2	1	3	3	2	3	17	13	10	0	76
Rabies	0	0	7	7	2	3	5	6	5	2	8	1	7	9	5	7	0	74
Others	35	40	59	51	74	77	62	67	63	55	61	70	54	56	87	95	12	1018
All	89	148	166	150	180	176	151	147	138	172	198	229	280	313	290	358	77	3262

In bold is the year with more reports from each disease. ^†Dates in parentheses are used to identify situations where a disease was not included in the list of reportable diseases until after 2005 (date before the dash) or was removed from the list of reportable diseases before 2021 (date after the dash). ^‡As of 8 February.