Inventory of Federal, Provincial and Territorial Environmental and Occupational Health Data
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Inventory of Data Sources

Enteric Disease Surveillance System (EDSS) (Health Canada)

Contacts
Rafiq Ahmed
National Laboratory for Enteric Pathogens
National Microbiology Laboratory (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Health Canada
Tel: (204) 789-6013
Fax: (204) 789-5012
E-mail: Rafiq_Ahmed@hc-sc.gc.ca

Sponsoring Organization
Health Canada

Purpose of Database
To collect and disseminates laboratory-based weekly acute surveillance data on enteric foodborne causing human disease, in an effort to identify and reduce risk factors and to enable early intervention. These data may reduce the risk of outbreaks and lower the economic burden of disease through the rapid exchange of information on outbreak investigations.

Content
Laboratory-based weekly acute surveillance data on enteric foodborne pathogens (bacterial, viral, and parasitic); and on foodborne diseases (epidemiology, risk factors). Data types: pathological; microbiological; epidemiological; geographic.

Year Database Established
Not specified

Coverage Period
1999 (latest year)

Data Updates
Weekly

Data Providers
Provincial laboratories

Data Availability
Not applicable

Reports
Weekly/quarterly acute surveillance reports are provided to Canadian provincial public health laboratories, the Centres for Disease Control (Atlanta), and the British Public Health Laboratory Service.