[Correspondence] Waiting for disaster: Australia's arboviral outbreak reveals inadequacies of surveillance systems

The Article by Annaleise R Howard-Jones and colleagues1 in The Lancet Microbe presents valuable diagnostic insights from the largest documented Murray Valley encephalitis virus (MVEV) outbreak since 1974, reporting an MVEV-specific IgM sensitivity of 81% by day 7 and identifying two circulating genotypes. However, this meticulously documented outbreak exposes fundamental inadequacies in surveillance systems during an era of accelerating climate-driven disease emergence.