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Canadian Animal Health Surveillance Network

The Canadian Animal Health Surveillance Network (CAHSN) is a network of federal, provincial, and university animal health laboratories across Canada. It is an example of how collaboration and innovation provide improved early detection and rapid response to animal disease threats and help minimize risks to animal health, public health and Canada's economy. The central reference laboratory for the network operates from the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The Canadian Animal Health Surveillance Network provides:

Building diagnostic capability

Analysts from network laboratories across Canada have received training from the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease on how to use standardized testing protocols to detect four major foreign animal diseases:

Collaboration in action

To quickly manage avian influenza outbreaks in 2016, 2015, 2009 and 2007, CAHSN laboratories in Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Ontario conducted testing on behalf of the CFIA.

The laboratory technical support and quality assurance programs established for Canadian Animal Health Surveillance Network ensure consistency in the quality and delivery of diagnostic work done in the laboratories by:

Collaborative surveillance

Working collaboratively, the laboratories are able to collect national animal health information and coordinate their work so they can consistently and quickly respond to potential animal disease outbreaks. Examples of their collaborative efforts include the following:

Canadian Animal Health Surveillance Network Partners

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