Animal Disease Information

Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System

CAHSS brings together and uses data-driven information to demonstrate animal health, minimize impacts of disease, and guide planning on animal health priorities.

Click on the image below to view links to federal, provincial and OIE regulations and regulated disease information on the CAHSS website.

Resources and links

• African Swine Fever (ASF)
  • AHEM provides management and funding support to the African Swine Fever Executive Management Board
  • Canadian Pork Council

• Avian Influenza(AI)
  • Canadian Food Inspection Agency – Avian influenza (bird flu)
  • Canadian Food Inspection Agency – HPAI dashboard
  • Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative HPAI dashboard
  • Poultry Industry Council
  • BC Minstry of Ag Avian Influenza

• Biosecurity
• World Animal Health Information System – a look at the animal health situation worldwide
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency – Animal health compensation – what to expect when an animal is ordered destroyed

* Reportable Diseases (listed on the right) are outlined in the Health of Animals Act and Reportable Diseases Regulations and are usually of significant importance to human or animal health or to the Canadian economy. Animal owners, veterinarians and laboratories are required to immediately report the presence of an animal that is contaminated or suspected of being contaminated with one of these diseases to a CFIA district veterinarian.

REPORTABLE ANIMAL DISEASES

Cattle / Bison

• Bluetongue (BTV)
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
• Bovine Tuberculosis (Bovine TB)
• Brucellosis
• Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD)
• Rift Valley Fever (RVF)

Equine

• Brucellosis
• Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM)
• Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA)
• Equine Piroplasmosis
• Vesicular Stomatitis (VS)

Goat

• Bluetongue
• Brucellosis
• Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD)
• Peste Des Petits Ruminants (PPR)
• Rift Valley Fever
• Scrapie
• Sheep and Goat Pox
• Tuberculosis

Pigs

• African Swine Fever (ASF)
• Classical Swine Fever (CSF)
• Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD)
• Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv)
• Pseudorabies (Aujeszky’s disease)

Sheep

• Anthrax
• Bluetongue (BTV)
• Brucellosis
• Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD)
• Peste Des Petits Ruminants (PPR)
• Sheep and Goat Pox
• Vesicular Stomatitis (VS)