Animal health and welfare surveillance priorities for the Canadian beef industry.

Joyce Van Donkersgoed, Cheryl L Waldner, Marianne Parent, Barbara J Wilhelm, Murray Gillies, Doris Leung

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Article in The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Joyce Van DonkersgoedDr. Joyce Van Donkersgoed Inc., Coaldale, Alberta (Van Donkersgoed); Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Waldner); Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System, Animal Health Canada, Elora, Ontario (Parent, Gillies, Leung); Western Canadian Animal Health Network, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Wilhelm).

Cheryl L WaldnerDr. Joyce Van Donkersgoed Inc., Coaldale, Alberta (Van Donkersgoed); Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Waldner); Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System, Animal Health Canada, Elora, Ontario (Parent, Gillies, Leung); Western Canadian Animal Health Network, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Wilhelm).

Marianne ParentDr. Joyce Van Donkersgoed Inc., Coaldale, Alberta (Van Donkersgoed); Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Waldner); Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System, Animal Health Canada, Elora, Ontario (Parent, Gillies, Leung); Western Canadian Animal Health Network, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Wilhelm).

Barbara J WilhelmDr. Joyce Van Donkersgoed Inc., Coaldale, Alberta (Van Donkersgoed); Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Waldner); Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System, Animal Health Canada, Elora, Ontario (Parent, Gillies, Leung); Western Canadian Animal Health Network, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Wilhelm).

Murray GilliesDr. Joyce Van Donkersgoed Inc., Coaldale, Alberta (Van Donkersgoed); Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Waldner); Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System, Animal Health Canada, Elora, Ontario (Parent, Gillies, Leung); Western Canadian Animal Health Network, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Wilhelm).

Doris LeungDr. Joyce Van Donkersgoed Inc., Coaldale, Alberta (Van Donkersgoed); Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Waldner); Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System, Animal Health Canada, Elora, Ontario (Parent, Gillies, Leung); Western Canadian Animal Health Network, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Wilhelm).

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System (CAHSS) is a collaborative network that gathers and uses surveillance data to monitor animal health, reduce disease impacts, and inform national priorities. Beef cattle practitioners, industry professionals, and veterinary epidemiologists collaborated to establish the primary animal health and welfare surveillance priorities for the beef sector over the next 5 y. A 4-step process with meetings, surveys, and a modified DISCONTOOLS rubric was used to set surveillance goals and to prioritize diseases and other issues for the Canadian beef industry. In order of decreasing importance, 18 beef surveillance priorities were identified: i) antimicrobial use (AMU) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) stewardship; ii) AMR for bovine diseases; iii) feed availability and cost; iv) regulatory changes affecting trade; v) bovine respiratory disease (BRD); vi) nutrition, including trace minerals and water; vii)

Indexed as

Animal HusbandryAnimal WelfareCattle DiseasesSentinel SurveillanceAnimalsCanadaCattlePopulation Surveillance

Identifiers

PMID41586144

PMCPMC12825680

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