Deadly chronic wasting disease found in urban deer in B.C.

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 19, 2025 6:22 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

A deadly cervid illness has recovered its mode into the municipality cervid colonisation successful Cranbrook, successful B.C.'s Kootenay region.

Chronic wasting illness (CWD) was detected successful a pistillate white-tailed cervid during a caller investigating blitz. Officials were successful Cranbrook and Kimberley moving to find if the condition had made its mode into the country aft 5 other cases of CWD were recovered adjacent successful the province.

CWD has a 100 per cent fatality complaint and was discovered successful B.C. for the archetypal clip past year.

Attacking the brain, CWD spreads successful populations of cervid that stock the aforesaid spaces, which is wherefore the state has said municipality populations are of peculiar interest arsenic much animals premix unneurotic successful smaller spaces.

Officials had aimed to kill 200 cervid successful full to cod samples from them, but coiled up getting 126, with lone 1 affirmative illustration returned. 

Still, due to the fact that of however rapidly the illness tin spread, it's a interest that it's been detected successful the city.

The state says further removal and investigating whitethorn beryllium required. An municipality cervid collaring programme has started successful bid to way the animal's movements to amended pass the imaginable dispersed of the disease.

CWD is not known to dispersed to humans.