The U.S.-Mexico Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project (BIDS)[1] was a bilateral project undertaken by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in cooperation with the Mexican government (specifically the Mexican Secretariat of Health) to promote bi-national border surveillance relating to the spread of harmful diseases between the two nations as well as to establish regional protocol.[2]
The development of the project began in 1997.[1] Over a period of three years, a team of officials from both nations constructed an "active, sentinel surveillance system" over a series of 13 clinical sites.[1]
The primary goal of the project was to demonstrate "that a binational effort with local, state, and federal participation can create a regional surveillance system that crosses an international border".[1]
The BIDS project conducted investigations of reports concerning an outbreak of dengue feverinTexas and measlesinCalifornia and Baja California.[1]
