Imagine a disease that eats away at the neurons in your brain creating holes. This disease is fatal but will take years to kill you as your mind and body slowly waste away. By the way, its infectious and easily transmittable. That is CWD. It affects animals in the deer family, white-tail deer, mule deer, moose and elk. This degenerative disease was first discovered in a captive environment but is now found in wild populations of animals in much of the United States as well as Alberta and Saskatchewan. It can survive outside its host for years, making any place where infected animals live an infectious area even after the animals are long gone. It is truly a worrying situation and one that we need to try to understand and manage as much as possible. I brought Catherine on to the podcast to help explain what’s going on in Alberta. She is a research scientist that has been monitoring and working on CWD in Alberta for many years. She knows her stuff. Check out the podcast below to learn about what’s happening with CWD.
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Chronic Wasting Disease in Alberta Podcast
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