People who suspect a reportable disease must protect and preserve diagnostic material, provide it to an inspector or authorized person, and must not destroy it if it could help diagnose the disease.
Reportable Diseases Regulation, M.R. 59/2007 The Animal Diseases Act , C.C.S.M. c. A85 Regulation 59/2007 Registered March 26, 2007 bilingual version (HTML) Definitions 1 The following definitions apply in this regulation. "Act" means The Animal Diseases Act . (« Loi ») "diagnostic material" means a part of a live animal or carcass or a biological sample from a live animal or carcass that, when analyzed or tested, may provide information that is relevant to determining whether the animal has suffered from, or is or has been infected with, a reportable disease. (« matériel diagnostique ») Reportable diseases designated 2 The following diseases are designated as reportable diseases for the purposes of the Act: (a) all diseases that are prescribed as reportable diseases in regulations made under subsection 2(2) of the Health of Animals Act (Canada); (b) all diseases listed in Schedule VII (Immediately Notifiable Diseases) to the Health of Animals Regulations , C.R.C., c. 296, made under the Health of Animals Act (Canada); (c) Coxiella burnetii (Q Fever); (d) ovine chlamydiosis (enzootic abortion of ewes); (e) Mycobacterium paratuberculosis ; (f) Salmonella choleraesuis ; (g) Salmonella abortus equi ; (h) Salmonella enteritidis ; (i) Salmonella typhimurium (multi-drug resistant isolates); (j) American foulbrood ( Paenibacillus larvae subsp. Larvae ); (k) European foulbrood ( Melissococcus pluton ); (l) nosema ( Nosema apis ); (m) acarine ( Acarapis woodi ); (n) Francisella tularensis (tularemia); (o) influenza A; (p) transmissible gastroenteritis in swine (TGE coronavirus); (q) porcine epidemic diarrhea. M.R. 46/2014 Protection of diagnostic material 3(1) A person who suspects that an animal has a reportable disease or that an animal died while infected with a reportable disease must (a) ensure that the animal or any part of its carcass that may be a source of diagnostic material is protected from deterioration; (b) ensure that all reasonable steps are taken to collect and store the diagnostic material in a way so as to preserve its integrity and diagnostic value; and (c) give the diagnostic material to an inspector, or to another person authorized by the director to receive it for diagnostic testing. 3(2) No person shall destroy diagnostic material if the material may be used to diagnose a reportable disease. Veterinary examination of symptomatic animals 4(1) A person who has care and control of an animal that displays clinical signs compatible with a reportable disease must have the animal clinically examined by a veterinarian without delay after becoming aware that a reportable disease may be indicated. 4(2) The director or a person authorized by him or her may, out of money appropriated for this purpose under an Act of the Legislature, approve payment to the examining veterinarian of part or all of the veterinarian's reasonable charges for the clinical examination, including, but not limited to, professional fees and sampling and diagnostic testing charges.