Started in 2010, the PPHSN Pacific Syndromic Surveillance System (PSSS) serves as an early warning tool for common outbreak-prone diseases. The PSSS is both indicator- and event-based surveillance.
Data are collected weekly on four syndromes – acute fever and rash, diarrhoea, influenza like-illness, and prolonged fever – from over 200 health care facilities in 23 countries across the Pacific. The reports generated by the PSSS contain information that could indicate the start of an outbreak.