Alberta Canada CWD continues steady march west, recording it’s highest positives ever June 2012 Report
Alberta Canada CWD continues steady march west, recording it’s highest
positives ever June 2012 Report
Sustainable Resource Development Annual Report 2011-2012
ALBERTA GOVERNMENT
JUNE 2012
The Ministry takes an active role in monitoring and managing wildlife
diseases. In 2011-12 Sustainable Resource Development continued to monitor the
spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer in eastern Alberta. CWD was
detected in 33 of 3,194 tested animals. Data indicates that previous disease
control programs reduced the rate at which CWD established in local populations.
Since the suspension of disease control, CWD has steadily increased in
prevalence and geographic distribution, including resurgence in areas where
previous disease control had reduced its occurrence. Sustainable Resource
Development will undertake an extensive program review and will prepare new
recommendations for managing CWD in Alberta.
Chronic wasting disease in deer continues steady march west
Affliction could reach Calgary outskirts within decade
By Kelly Cryderman, Calgary HeraldJune 29, 2012 7:30 AM
Chronic wasting disease in deer continues its march westward from
Saskatchewan, bolstering scientific predictions the animal affliction will reach
the outskirts of Calgary and Edmonton within the decade.
Even the current low levels of chronic wasting disease (CWD) are
painstakingly monitored by the Alberta government because of its relation to
bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the neurodegenerative prion disease in cattle,
and concern CWD found in deer, elk and moose may someday spread to humans.
The most recent provincial data, published Thursday in Sustainable Resource
Development's annual report, indicates CWD was discovered in 33 of 3,194 tested
deer in southeastern Alberta last year, the highest number ever found.
The wasting disease is also spreading to new parts of the province.
Hunters say the government needs to bolster its CWD testing programs to
include all of Alberta.
"The major concern is it's spreading into the animals and I don't think
anyone knows whether it can be transferred to humans or not, like BSE," said
Alberta Fish and Game Association president Conrad Fennema.
The numbers are going up, incrementally.
Only four deer with CWD were found in 2005, the first year the disease was
detected in the province. More recently, 13 infected deer were discovered in
2009, and 20 in 2010.
The annual report said since the government halted a winter cull program in
areas where sick deer were found, "CWD has steadily increased in prevalence and
geographic distribution, including resurgence in areas where previous disease
control had reduced its occurrence."
The report said Sustainable Resource Development, which has been merged
with the Environment department, will undertake an extensive program review and
prepare new plans for managing CWD.
"We'll be looking at what we need to do for the coming season," said a
spokesman, Dave Ealey. "We don't want to see it spread."
University of Alberta biologist David Coltman, who studies the disease in
deer, said it's not the increased numbers he's worried about, but the spread of
it.
Last year, Coltman said the disease was already "at the gates of Calgary"
and predicted CWD would likely be found just outside the province's two biggest
cities in five to 10 years.
"If you look at a map, you start to realize that this is getting to be
quite a large geographic area where the disease is found," Coltman said
Thursday.
"There are no geographic barriers. And we know the deer aren't fussy about
which direction they seem to move."
CWD is an emerging disease first found on a Colorado game ranch in the late
1960s, but is now encountered in 15 U.S. states and Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Although scientists don't fully understand the way the disease spreads, it
flares when deer populations are high and animals are crowded together.
In 2008, the province axed its program of culling deer in areas where the
disease was found. Coltman said keeping the disease out of Alberta completely
was never a strong likelihood and CWD is now too widespread for culling measures
to be effective.
Today, the Alberta government relies mostly on hunters to kill infected
animals and gather data about CWD. Many more hunting licences are granted and
hunters must give government staff the heads of the deer they kill in areas
where the disease has been discovered. Coltman said it's important the
province's surveillance system is maintained. "We don't know what the future is
going to hold so let's just make sure we know where it is."
At the Alberta Fish and Game Association, Fennema said he believes the
government should require hunters to turn in deer heads - in every part of the
province.
"Doing nothing is not an option," Fennema said.
kcryderman@ calgaryherald.com
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CANADA
TOO bad Canada’s policy on BSE aka mad cow type disease, and the reporting
there from of completed cases, have ceased to exist on the CFIA site for the
public to follow. you have to request a copy. CFIA ceased giving those copies
out to me. ...
•Request a copy of a completed BSE investigation report for a case after
January 2009
Sunday, May 27, 2012
CANADA PLANS TO IMPRISON ANYONE SPEAKING ABOUT MAD COW or ANY OTHER DISEASE
OUTBREAK, CENSORSHIP IS A TERRIBLE THING
PLEASE NOTE, type determination pending Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (tdpCJD)
in Canada is also on a steady increase. please see ;
> 3. Final classification of 50 cases from 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 is
pending.
CJD Deaths Reported by CJDSS1, 1994-20122
As of May 31, 2012
Deaths of Definite and Probable CJD
Year Sporadic Iatrogenic Familial GSS FFI vCJD Total
1994 2 0 0 1 0 0 3
1995 3 0 0 0 0 0 3
1996 13 0 0 0 0 0 13
1997 16 0 1 1 0 0 18
1998 22 1 0 1 0 0 24
1999 26 2 2 1 0 0 31
2000 32 0 0 3 0 0 35
2001 27 0 2 1 0 0 30
2002 31 0 2 2 0 1 36
2003 27 1 1 0 0 0 29
2004 42 0 1 0 0 0 43
2005 42 0 0 2 0 0 44
2006 39 0 1 3 1 0 44 2007 35 0 0 4 0 0 39
2008 48 0 1 0 0 0 49
2009 48 0 3 2 0 0 53
2010 34 0 3 0 0 0 37
2011 37 0 2 1 0 1 41
2012 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Total 525 4 19 22 1 2 573
1. CJDSS began in 1998
2. Data before 1998 are retrospective and partial, data from 1998 to 2008
are complete, and data for 2009 - 2012 are provisional
3. Final classification of 50 cases from 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 is
pending.
CJD Deaths Reported by CJDSS1, 1994-20122
As of May 31, 2012
CENSORSHIP IS A TERRIBLE THING $$$
Canada has had a COVER-UP policy of mad cow disease since about the 17th
case OR 18th case of mad cow disease. AFTER THAT, all FOIA request were ignored
$$$
THIS proves there is indeed an epidemic of mad cow disease in North
America, and it has been covered up for years and years, if not for decades, and
it’s getting worse $$$
Thursday, February 10, 2011
TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY REPORT UPDATE CANADA FEBRUARY 2011
and how to hide mad cow disease in Canada Current as of: 2011-01-31
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE SIXTEENTH CASE OF BOVINE SPONGIFORM
ENCEPHALOPATHY (BSE) IN CANADA
Thursday, August 19, 2010
REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE SEVENTEENTH CASE OF BOVINE SPONGIFORM
ENCEPHALOPATHY (BSE) IN CANADA
Friday, March 4, 2011
Alberta dairy cow found with mad cow disease
Friday, June 8, 2012
Canadian Food Inspection Agency locates missing sheep
see full text here ;
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Human TSE report update North America, Canada,
Mexico, and USDA PRION UNIT as of May 18, 2012
type determination pending Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (tdpCJD), is on the
rise in Canada and the USA
Monday, June 25, 2012
US Department of Agriculture ends funding for chronic wasting disease
CWD
for all those game farmers that thought the USDA was the save all to the
cervid game farming and ranching with CWD, instead of the DNR. please see ;
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
First US BSE Case Since 2006 Underscores Need for Vigilance
Neurology Today 21 June 2012
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