Surveillance

 The CCH develops, evaluates and applies novel tools and techniques to characterize the health status of populations and systems in a manner that is timely, accurate and crosses disciplines. Examples of surveillance projects include:

• Evaluation of Michigan State’s program for the prevention, detection, and control of chronic wasting disease
• Evaluation of BC’s fish health surveillance program
• National surveillance of avian influenza in wild waterfowl
• West Nile virus surveillance
• Contribute to the Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS)
• Surveillance of horses, dogs, cats and wildlife on Vancouver Island for Cryptococcus neoformans gattii
• Fish disease surveillance in BC
• Incorporating animal disease data into public health surveillance systems
• Medicated feed sales in BC
• Surveys of cow-calf producers for enteric pathogens
• Rabies surveys in raccoons and coyotes
• Viral disease surveillance in aquaculture
• Surveys of wildlife for Cryptosporidia, Giardia and Toxoplasma
• Development of a theoretical and electronic foundation for a national network to look at animal and environmental health as a means of early detection or prediction of emerging human health risks
• Food safety in seafood plants using HACCP
• Surveillance of cattle for disease attributable to sour-gas production