Area Regional Control and Elimination of the PRRS virus are being undertaken, and focus on several different issues. Biosecurity projects include work on the Production Animal Disease Risk Assessment Program, the Disease Control and Elimination Tool Kit, a pilot project for regional control and elimination in Ontario, and analyzing the transport of hogs through/to/from high density hog areas. Other biosecurity projects are the prioritizing of biosecurity upgrades, prioritizing off-farm biosecurity measures, developing a guide for a multidisciplinary approach to health and biosecurity, develop an air filter guide, a veterinarian biosecurity workshop, and an Alberta biosecurity training and audit program. The research project is to make recommendations for control and elimination. Long term disease risk management projects involve mortality insurance, protocol to determine negative herd status, and a disease surveillance and outbreak detection model.