Swine Health Information Center Inc

Identify high risk events likely to be responsible for introducing emerging diseases onto farms through outbreak investigations. Refine and enhance a standardized approach to outbreak investigations, which help producers and veterinarians respond to and manage newly emerging diseases. Enhance responsiveness and efficiency of outbreak investigations to understand epidemiologically distinct incidents of endemic disease outbreaks. Automate and streamline the rapid response investigation process. Identify early warnings of disease events for rapid response and quickly research pathogens causing emerging disease outbreaks. Assess effectiveness of sanitation and decontamination protocols. Improve the ability to investigate disease outbreaks through forensic diagnostic tools to enhance emerging disease discovery. Ensure communications pathway will facilitate rapid response to an emerging disease, and ensure resources are available to help detect, prepare, and respond to emerging diseases on the farm.

Enhance detection of emerging disease to facilitate rapid response. Offer diagnostic fee support to help detect emerging diseases so they are quickly and accurately identified for action by the industry. Investigate innovative and novel sample types and sampling protocols to identify emerging diseases earlier. Investigate newly identified agents associated with disease to understand the clinical relevance and epidemiology of novel viruses and bacteria.veterinary diagnostic labs continue to identify these viruses and understanding associations with clinical disease syndromes is critical. Better understanding of the epidemiology and pathogenicity of the agents are important to identifying if they have a role in clinical disease.

Make industry swine health information available to help identify, communicate, and mitigate regional and national risks to herd health. Survey to identify pathogens and emerging diseases and uncover regional differences that might be able to be used in predicting disease risk and current outbreak models. Refine domestic swine disease monitoring and reporting. Inform the industry about emerging diseases or syndromes that might look like an isolated incident to help producers evaluate and prepare for health risks, supporting the development of an effective disease risk and outbreak model. Develop the industry capacity for detection of emerging diseases for rapid response and business continuity.