CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY SCRAPIE ERADICATION PROGRAM UPDATE

摘要

The objective of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's (CFIA) scrapie program is to eradicate scrapie from Canada. This objective will become increasingly possible as active surveillance identifies as many sites of scrapie infection in Canada as possible, and better tools become available to distinguish animals carrying infection on infected premises and to screen flocks to determine the original source of the infection. As the goal is eradication, it is imperative to exhaust all epidemiological links. In Canada, active surveillance for scrapie started at the end of 2005 and the program continues to evolve.