A collection of AilmentConditions. Each instance of SurveillanceSyndrome consists of at least one PhysiologicalCondition, usually an instance of AilmentCondition. More often an instance of a SurveillanceSyndrome consists of a Group of several different PhysiologicalConditions or AilmentConditions that are suffered by the same Animal at about the same time. The co-occurrence of these AilmentConditions often indicates the presence of a type of Infection. Syndromic surveillance systems track the number of cases of types of SurveillanceSyndromes over time for a given geographical region as potential indicators of the presence of InfectiousDiseaseTypes and InfectiousDiseaseEpidemics in the population. Since SurveillanceSyndromes are just clusters of symptoms, they can be detected by a clinician during examination of the affected animal/person. Thus syndromic surveillance systems should be capable of detecting disease outbreaks earlier than surveillance systems that monitor diagnoses that require results from diagnostic procedures.