The federal government is providing $1.5 million to the Canadian Pork Council to set up a national virus detection system.
It’s expected the virus detection system will enable the CPC to provide consistent information on the health status of the hog population across the country, track early disease warning signs, and rapidly identify new and emerging diseases in the sector before they spread.
The government earlier gave $94,000 to the University of Montréal to develop an advanced disease surveillance tool to help the hog sector to better understand the frequency of diseases, emerging strains, and the movement of endemic diseases in Canada.
That work is being dove-tailed into this new national surveillance program.
