Insights and Stories on Chronic Wasting Disease

File photo of moose in a Saskatchewan field.

Saskatchewan expands wildlife testing to include bovine TB

Oct. 11, 2023 at 10:37 pm CDT

Recent confirmed cases of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in a Saskatchewan cattle herd have led the province to expand its annual wildlife monitoring program for chronic wasting disease (CWD) to also include TB. The province each year since 1997 has asked hunters to submit heads from harvested deer, moose and elk […]

Chronic wasting disease discovered in Manitoba

Nov. 2, 2021 at 2:07 pm CDT

By Glacier FarmMedia staff

Ontario to limit imports, transport of live elk, deer

Dec. 21, 2020 at 1:49 am CST

By Dave Bedard

Deer heads required from Kootenay region for CWD tests

Sep. 26, 2019 at 9:54 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

B.C. to block hunting attractants from out-of-province

Dec. 31, 2017 at 5:28 pm CST

By Staff

Federal response tightened for chronic wasting disease

Jul. 1, 2017 at 1:23 am CDT

Canadian ranchers raising cervids such as elk, deer and moose will soon have to get in on certification programs before they can be eligible for any federal help in the event of a chronic wasting disease (CWD) outbreak. One of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) family of nervous system diseases, […]

By Staff

U.S. researchers develop CWD vaccine

Dec. 22, 2014 at 3:04 pm CST

Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center and elsewhere say that a vaccination they have developed to fight a brain-based, wasting syndrome among deer and other animals may hold promise on two additional fronts: Protecting U.S. livestock from contracting the disease, and preventing similar brain infections in humans. The study, to […]

By Langone Medical Center release