New case of chronic wasting disease confirmed in B.C.

By the Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship
Government of British Columbia
November 21, 2024
Category: Forestry
Region: Canada, Canada West

The Province has confirmed an additional case of chronic wasting disease in British Columbia, found in a white-tailed deer near Cranbrook. Chronic wasting disease is an infectious and fatal disease affecting species in the cervid family, including deer, elk, moose and caribou. To date, three cases of the disease have been identified in deer populations in the Kootenay region. The first two cases in B.C. were confirmed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in February 2024. One was a male mule deer harvested by a hunter, and the other was a female white-tailed deer killed in a road accident. Both were collected in Cranbrook as part of B.C.’s ongoing chronic wasting disease surveillance efforts. The latest case was confirmed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency on November 20, 2024. The sample was collected from a white-tailed deer harvested in October 2024. This case is within two kilometres of the other case found in a white-tailed deer .

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