Edmonton… The Alberta government is asking deer hunters for their help in reducing the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild deer in the province. Beginning this season, hunters are required to submit the heads of all deer harvested in key areas along the Alberta/Saskatchewan border and to voluntarily Read more
Alberta has documented another four cases of chronic wasting disease in wild deer near the Alberta-Saskatchwan boundary. This brings the total of the number of deer with confirmed cases of the disease in the province to eight since the first case was discovered last September. The federal Canadian Food Inspection Read more
Edmonton – Alberta has recorded its first case of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a wild deer killed by a hunter in the province. This brings the total to four cases of CWD confirmed in wild deer in Alberta. The federal Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed this latest case December Read more
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed two additional cases of chronic wasting disease in two wild mule deer found about 30 kilometres southeast of Oyen, Alberta. These deer were 2 out of 133 deer collected in response to the first case of CWD found in the wild and confirmed Read more
Alberta’s ongoing chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance effort has identified the disease in a wild mule deer about 30 kilometres southeast of Oyen, Alberta. The case was confirmed today by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). A member of the public observed a very thin deer, which was subsequently collected Read more
All but five elk shot by wildlife officers near Stony Plain have been tested for chronic wasting disease and come up negative. Government spokesman Dave Ealey says 28 elk were shot by Fish and Wildlife staff after they were discovered roaming free earlier this fall. Of those, 23 produced brain Read more
Surveillance/Research Update Background Since the initiation of Alberta’s chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance program in 1996, two game-farmed cervids, a ranched elk at slaughter and a white-tailed deer that died on the farm have been diagnosed with CWD. Both animals were diagnosed in 2002. The detection of scrapie in an Read more
MAGRATH, ALTA. – Hunters in southern Alberta are killing white-tailed deer out of season – ridding the region of a growing nuisance and helping the pursuit of science. The deer population outside Magrath, south of Lethbridge, has grown more than 500 per cent over the last decade. The animals are Read more
EDMONTON – Federal officials have been sitting for 2 1/2 months on news that a second Alberta deer tested positive for chronic-wasting disease, a mad-cow variant that has forced the slaughter of thousands of elk on the Prairies, the National Post has learned. Ray Heinen, who farms white-tail deer near Read more
Edmonton AB.-The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has quarantined an Alberta farm in an investigation of a single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease. This case of one cow was detected as part of Canada’s ongoing BSE surveillance program. Alberta Agriculture officials tested a Read more