EPIZONE aims to make epidemiological and surveillance data available for partner institutes,so better surveillance and control strategies can be developed and further a better understanding of the epidemiology of these diseases. 

• For aquaculture, progress has been made on surveillance and epidemiology of viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus, infectious haematopoietic necrosis virus, and Koi herpesvirus, varying from options for implementing Geographic Information System (GIS),harmonization of methods for diagnosis and sequencing to sharing information of isolates and newly developed methods by databases.
  
  
• For avian influenza (AI) and avian paramyxoviruses EU surveillance programs are progressing to improve and harmonise surveillance, diagnosis and research.
  
  
• Further, a sequence database ‘FLUZONE’ for AI and ‘PARAZONE’ for avian paramyxoviruses, including that of isolates in the repositories of partner laboratories, will be established.
  
  
• Transmission of a disease can also be studied under experimental conditions. Previously performed (transmission) experiments on foot-and-mouth disease and swine vesicular disease have been exchanged and currently transmission parameters are being assessed by modelling.
  
  
• Molecular epidemiology is studying genetic relationships between pathogens (including foot-and-mouth disease, swine vesicular disease, swine fevers, rinderpest, peste des petits ruminants, bluetongue, Rift Valley fever and also bacterial and mycoplasmal diseases such as e.g. contagious bovine pleuropneumonia). To support this, two web-based molecular epidemiology servers are being developed.