Source: Guy Quenneville, CBC News, September 25, 2019
Record number of cases reported of the non-human disease last year in Sask.
The Saskatchewan government is asking hunters to turn in a total of 1,500 animals’ heads to help prevent the spread of an infectious animal disease.
The province’s Ministry of Environment is hoping to test the carcasses of mule deer, white-tailed deer, moose, elk and caribou for signs of chronic wasting disease (CWD), an infectious and fatal disease with no known cure.
“Understanding how this disease spreads is critical in evaluating potential population impacts, and in developing disease management plans,” Environment Minister Dustin Duncan said in a news release issued Tuesday.
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