The Canada West Swine Health Intelligence Network (CWSHIN) serves western swine producers, swine herd practitioners, and governments to improve swine health, production, and the economic prosperity of the sector.
The surveillance objectives are:
- Detect new emerging swine health issues
- Detect unusual clinical presentation of known diseases
- Provide information about endemic diseases, and
- For diseases absent in western Canada (such as Foot and Mouth Disease and African swine fever) the objective is to help provide evidence of absence of disease to support trade.