“…Although early SyS initiatives have concentrated on monitoring data of non-specific clinical syndromes, hence the terminology, other manifestations of poor health have also been widely used, including reduced production performance [4,5] and mortality [6][7][8][9]. Veterinary SyS has primarily focused on terrestrial animals, including horses [10,11], poultry [12,13], cattle [4,6,8], small ruminants [14,15], and swine [5,7,9]. In aquatic animals, the early detection of epidemics in shrimp farms has been evaluated based on production performance data, when there was reduced shrimp yield and survival [16].…”