Chronic wasting disease is fatal to cervids, including white-tailed deer.
The B.C. Wildlife Federation is calling for the province to "aggressively reduce" urban deer populations through a cull in the Kootenay region. The call comes in response to the B.C. government announcing that chronic wasting disease has been confirmed in yet another deer near Cranbrook, B.C.Posted: Nov 21, 2024 4:37 PM EST | Last Updated: 8 minutes agoSocial Sharing
It is the third confirmed case of the fatal disease in B.C., following the discovery of two cases — the first ever found in B.C. — that wereNicknamed zombie deer disease, CWD is an incurable illness that affects cervid, or deer family members, such as moose, caribou and elk, and has been spreading rapidly through Western Canada.
In an interview with CBC News, Zenman said while there is often vocal opposition to the idea of deer culls, the current strategy is resulting in deer being managed "by people's bumpers" as populations proliferate. In response, the B.C. government established a surveillance program for the disease in an effort to reduce the risk of spread, which discovered the first two cases in B.C.'s Kootenays this past winter.
Perhaps the best-known example is bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly referred to as mad cow disease.To date, chronic wasting disease has primarily been found in deer and elk populations in Saskatchewan and Alberta, and more recently in a wild deer in Manitoba, as well as a farmed red deer in Quebec, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
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