Endemic contagious diseases are the main worry in day-to-day animal health management for farmers and their veterinarians. The so-called production diseases are often caused by multiple pathogens and pose the largest threat to animal health and welfare and thus to productivity of both terrestrial and aquatic species.

The DECIDE project addresses the three most important terrestrial livestock systems in the EU, cattle, pigs, poultry, as well as the aquatic species with the highest economic importance: salmonids. A key element of DECIDE is to build prototypes of the decision-support tools, one for each of the four species.