Membership of the WeCAHN expert beef network includes 4 beef cow-calf veterinary practitioners, 1 feedlot practitioner, laboratory diagnosticians, veterinary college researchers, provincial ministry staff including veterinary epidemiologists, and representatives from the Canadian Cow-Calf Surveillance Network (C3SN) and the Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS) feedlot program.

1. 2nd May 2024: Updates on H5N1 beef safety studies: "USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing results from its testing of retail ground beef. FSIS collected 30 samples of ground beef from retail outlets in the states with dairy cattle herds that had tested positive for the H5N1 influenza virus at the time of sample collection. The samples were sent to APHIS’ National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) for PCR testing. On May 1, NVSL reported that all samples tested negative for H5N1. These results reaffirm that the meat supply is safe." LINK

2. Beef Cattle Vaccine Project: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. A team of western experts including beef veterinarians and producers drafted guidelines for vaccine use in western Canadian beef cow-calf herds, and created user-friendly information including podcasts, webinars, videos, infographics, and factsheets. LINK

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