Scientists aim to map the movement and interaction of deer populations in the Kooteneys before they are infected with 'zombie deer disease.'
Scientists tracking the spread of chronic wasting disease in British Columbia’s deer will soon have a new tool in their arsenal — a genomic map that shows how and where deer move across the landscape.
Targeted sampling of the area has not yet turned up any positive cases beyond the initial two. Kaylee Byers, an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University who is leading the project, said that’s a good thing, considering the disease is often spread through highly infectious prions, deformed proteins that accumulate in the animal's body.
“This disease is incredibly hard to control,” Byers said. “But it’s seeming like we caught this early.” The idea is to contain the disease before it infects huge swaths of deer — a prospect faced in several of the 25 U.S. states and three Canadian provinces where CWD has spread since it was first identified in the 1960s among populations of captive deer in Colorado.
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