Post by KNOWTHIS on Jan 19, 2007 23:30:52 GMT -5
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Sask., Alta., report new cases of deadly chronic wasting disease in wild deer
More cases of deadly chronic wasting disease in wild deer are showing up in Saskatchewan and Alberta.
So far 30 deer shot by hunters last fall in Saskatchewan have tested positive for the fatal brain malady, which is similar in some ways to mad cow disease but poses no threat to human health. More test results are pending.
In Alberta, there have been four cases since the fall in areas located just across the Saskatchewan boundary.
Officials in both provinces report that some of these cases are located in new areas - a finding that suggests that the disease may be spreading or that animals with CWD are on the move.
"We are finding it in places where we haven't found it before," Marv Hlady of Saskatchewan Environment said Monday.
"It is outside of the traditional CWD infected area."
Sask., Alta., report new cases of deadly chronic wasting disease in wild deer
More cases of deadly chronic wasting disease in wild deer are showing up in Saskatchewan and Alberta.
So far 30 deer shot by hunters last fall in Saskatchewan have tested positive for the fatal brain malady, which is similar in some ways to mad cow disease but poses no threat to human health. More test results are pending.
In Alberta, there have been four cases since the fall in areas located just across the Saskatchewan boundary.
Officials in both provinces report that some of these cases are located in new areas - a finding that suggests that the disease may be spreading or that animals with CWD are on the move.
"We are finding it in places where we haven't found it before," Marv Hlady of Saskatchewan Environment said Monday.
"It is outside of the traditional CWD infected area."
