Reportable diseases
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is the primary agency responsible for the surveillance, control and eradication of reportable animal diseases in Canada.
The EQSP and its partners support the CFIA, in collaboration with the MAPAQ, for any intervention against a reportable disease outbreak in Quebec and ensure coordination among the Quebec pork industry through the EQSP governance structure and its emergency measures plan.
Under the Canadian Health of Animals Act, reportable swine diseases are:
- Porcine brucellosis
- Porcine cysticercosis
- Foot-and-mouth disease
- Anthrax
- Aujeszky’s disease
- Swine vesicular disease
- African swine fever (ASF)
- Classical swine fever (CSF)
- Rabies
- Vesicular stomatitis
- Trichinosis
- Bovine tuberculosis
Thanks to the efforts of federal and provincial organizations, none of these diseases are present in Quebec or Canada.
More information: CFIA Reportable Diseases: Terrestrial Animals
Factsheet: Detecting Exotic Animal Diseases in Pigs: English, French, and Spanish.
EQSP Emergency Response Plan
For reportable diseases, the EQSP has developed the Emergency Response Plan (ERP) which is composed of a crisis cell made up of the EQSP Board of Directors, team leaders and EQSP staff. In addition, this crisis unit is the drop-off point for the information that will be transmitted to the industry. In addition, several teams would be at work if the EQSP ERP were to be activated.
