That program was initiated to provide a funding source for additional diagnostics when an ideology for disease in a swine herd is not immediately detected.
Once a foreign animal disease has been ruled out and routine diagnostics have ruled out endemic diseases that were thought to be the cause of a disease outbreak in a swine herd, our diagnostic fee support program can come in and provide resources for additional diagnostic assays such as whole genome sequencing with the pursuit of a definitive diagnosis.
It's really important to pursue a definitive diagnosis so that we do not miss an emerging disease.Sometimes clinical signs of endemic disease can certainly look like emerging or transboundary swine diseases and pursuit of that definitive diagnosis is really critical for early and rapid identification of newly emerging diseases as well as swift implementation of control strategies and reducing the pork production impact and risk of spread of any new emerging disease.
Dr. Niederwerder notes SHIC strives to focus on sharing information.She says the primary mechanisms of information sharing include its website at swinehealth.org, its monthly eNewsletter which includes monthly domestic and global disease monitoring reports, various webinars held throughout the year, research reports and research articles and fact sheets on specific diseases.
Source : Farmscape.ca