Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

Livestock Disease Control and Prevention

Biosecurity - General

• Farming Inspections and Biosecurity Protocols
• Biosecurity Fundamentals For Visitors To Livestock Facilities (Order No. 04-003)
• Biosecurity: Health Protection and Sanitation Strategies for Cattle and General Guidelines for Other Livestock (Order No. 09-079)
• Biosecurity for Youth Livestock Exhibitors - Ohio State University
• Bioterrorism Involving Livestock
• Botulism (Order No. 13-001)
• Disinfection in On-Farm Biosecurity Procedures - Ohio State University
• Ontario Animal Health Surveillance Network

Poultry

• Avian Influenza (Canadian Food Inspection Agency)
• The Facts About Bird Flu
• Biosecurity Recommendations for Commerical Poultry Flock Owners
• Biosecurity Recommendations for Small Flock Poultry Owners (Order No. 12-039)
• Checklist to Implementing an Effective Poultry Biosecurity Plan (PDF Version)

Swine

• Guidance on Pigs with Hernias (Order No. 13-075)

Disease Surveillance and Information

• Canada's Inter-Agency Wild Bird Influenza Survey
• Cryptosporidium: Could It Be In Your Water? (Order No. 04-015)
• Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)
• Foreign and Reportable Animal Diseases
• Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Coxiella burnetii in Small Ruminants and Q Fever in Humans
• Ontario Animal Health Surveillance Network
• Role of the Private Veterinarian in Diagnosis of Foreign Animal Diseases, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, May 9, 2001
• Equine Neurological Diseases
• Canada and the Province of Ontario's Foreign Animal Disease Emergency Response Plan

Ontario-Specific Immediately Notifiable Diseases

• Botulism (Order No. 13-001)
• Coxiellosis (Q Fever) (Order No. 13-007)
• Equine Herpesvirus (Order No. 13-003)
• Hantavirus (Order No. 13-005)
• Influenza (Order No. 13-009)
• Listeriosis (Order No. 13-011)
• Plague (Order No. 13-013)
• Salmonellosis (Order No. 13-015)
• Tularemia (Order No. 13-017)
• Verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (Order No. 13-019)