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Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program : manual for owners and cervid farm operators

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Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal, transmissible, and progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting domestic cervids such as elk and deer. Recognising the seriousness of this reportable... More ≫

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Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal, transmissible, and progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting domestic cervids such as elk and deer. Recognising the seriousness of this reportable disease in the animal population, the federal government developed the CWD Herd Certification Program (HCP) in order to create clear and consistent national standards to support the domestic cervid industry through integrating good animal husbandry with sound biosecurity practices designed to avoid or minimise the spread of CWD. Provinces are empowereed to administer their own programs in an effort to tailor the Program to address specific regional needs while also maintaining conformity with national standards. This comprehensive manual provides clear and accurate advice to Alberta owners and cervid farm operators contemplating enrolment and those who are currently enrolled in the Program.

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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) of elk and deer

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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a progressive, fatal, degenerative disease of the brain of free ranging or farmed ungulates (elk, mule deer and white-tailed deer). CWD belongs to a group of... More ≫

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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a progressive, fatal, degenerative disease of the brain of free ranging or farmed ungulates (elk, mule deer and white-tailed deer). CWD belongs to a group of related diseases called Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs), which include Scrapie in sheep and goats, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in humans.

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Alberta's chronic wasting disease management programs in 2006 and upcoming surveillance

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CWD is a chronic degenerative and ultimately fatal disease of cervids (primarily deer and elk). It has the potential to eliminate local cervid populations and is considered a significant threat to... More ≫

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CWD is a chronic degenerative and ultimately fatal disease of cervids (primarily deer and elk). It has the potential to eliminate local cervid populations and is considered a significant threat to deer populations in Alberta. Through CWD surveillance and management activities previous to 2007, two geographical areas were identified as potentially high risk for CWD incursion into Alberta: The Dillberry Lake Provincial Park area south of Chauvin and the region around the confluence of the Red Deer and South Saskatchewan Rivers.

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Chronic wasting disease : 2003 collection program : final report

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The specific goal of the program was to improve on-going surveillance data by actively collecting heads of up to 150 adult deer or elk from each of two areas centred around the CWD-positive farms.... More ≫

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The specific goal of the program was to improve on-going surveillance data by actively collecting heads of up to 150 adult deer or elk from each of two areas centred around the CWD-positive farms. We used agency staff (largely Fish and Wildlife Officers) to shoot deer, collect heads, salvage usable meat, and collect biological and forensic samples.

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