What we do
Surveillance built from the veterinary side.
Most disease-intelligence systems read human-health sources and notice an outbreak once people are already in hospital. We watch the part of the picture that moves first and is monitored least.
Open sources, continuously
Scientific, governmental and news sources are screened around the clock for events at the animal–human interface: spillover, reservoir dynamics, antimicrobial resistance in livestock, vector range shifts.
Signals, not headlines
Detected items are scored, grouped by pathogen and region, and checked against what the same sources reported earlier. Scores indicate priority for review, not clinical risk.
On a fixed schedule
Daily, weekly and monthly reports are generated and sent automatically, independent of anyone's working hours. Every issue stays readable in the public archive.
Live from the platform
What the system is seeing right now.
Pulled directly from Guardian Watch Worldwide as this page loaded. Detection means a source reported it — not that it has been independently verified.
The work behind an issue
Tens of thousands of items, read down to a few hundred.
Every issue is the residue of a much larger screen. The table below is the actual collection record for four consecutive weeks in July 2026 — items ingested, signals retained after filtering, and how many sources were reporting.
| Week | Items screened | Signals retained | Active sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-W27 | 15,930 | 372 | 82 |
| 2026-W28 | 29,232 | 1,026 | 94 |
| 2026-W29 | 60,423 | 2,840 | 90 |
| 2026-W30 | 54,935 | 1,631 | 96 |
Collection runs every fifteen minutes, around the clock. Retained signals are de-duplicated, geolocated where the source text allows, scored for review priority, and grouped by pathogen and region before anything is written.
What is published
Since 16 June 2026.
Every one of them is readable in full, by anyone, in the public archive — by date, series and designation. Nothing is withheld and nothing has been quietly revised after publication.
Why it matters
Most new human diseases start in animals.
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The interval between an animal-side signal and a human case is the interval in which something can still be done. Recording what appeared, when, and where is what makes that interval usable later.
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