Wasting disease found in more Alberta deer
Edmonton Journal
17 February 2006
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 Agency confirmed the province’s latest findings this week.
The latest cases were discovered near Acadia Valley and Empress, near the Saskatchewan boundary just northeast of Medicine Hat.
They were in the same area as the other four cases. Alberta’s first case of the disease in wild deer was discovered last September about 30 kilometres southeast of Oyen.
State Finds No Disease in 51 DeerThe Wichita Eagle
21 February 2006
Michael Pearce
Photo: hikingthecarolinas.com/
No new cases of chronic wasting disease were found in a recent test done on 51 northwest Kansas deer.
The deer were shot by Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks biologists Feb. 13-14, within a 15-mile radius of where a Cheyenne County whitetail doe -- which tested positive for the disease -- was killed by a hunter late last year.
"That's very good news," said Bob Mathews, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks information and education chief.
If widespread in Kansas, some fear chronic wasting disease could deplete localized deer populations, cripple Kansas' deer hunting industry or spread to commercial deer and elk operations.
Last year's infected doe was the first case of the disease detected in a wild Kansas animal. A farm-raised elk imported from Colorado to Kansas tested positive in 2001.
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