Oped: Integrated fever surveillance, an urgent need in India’s health security agenda

India has witnessed a spurt of febrile illnesses– diseases that present with fever, as a significant threat to health security in recent years. Many of these upsurges have been due to known infections, especially vector-borne diseases like Malaria, Dengue, Chikungunya, and Japanese Encephalitis. The others were from rare conditions and have often been named “mysterious disease/ fever” by the public and media …