CWD officially in BC

[HarryToolips]

why would you say that? You don’t believe god made wolves for a reason? Why would you want them to die? How educated are you on wolves? You’re probably among the group who needs to blame something when you don’t have a successful hunt.

I would believe he's made that statement because we currently have a predator pit in many parts of our province, with wolves being a large contributing factor of that issue..

[Woodchuck Dan]

If there are any West Kootenay hunters around, there is a CWD submission site in Nelson in the mental health building. It's not listed online so I had to dig around for it. At first it looked like I would have had to drive 3-4 hours to submit a head and I wasn't willing to do that.

As an added bonus, I got to carry a severed head in a cooler into a government run building that deals with mental health. An unexpected bonus to the season

[superdrupal]

If anyone is interested, the province updated the test results this week with over 800 results now displaying.

[Woodchuck Dan]

Yes but only two are positive and both are from the kootenay region:

Chronic Wasting Disease Test Results - Province of British Columbia (gov.bc.ca)

[North Star]

Anywhere there is domesticated animals, namely cattle and sheep, there is a chance "CWD" will eventually show up.

Last time mad cow showed up in Canada they just simply sent cows to slaughter at a younger age. Before the time needed for symptoms to show up... Our food supply is a total mess.

People here have mentioned moose, is that true? Last I checked they didn't seem to be getting it.

CWD, CJD, Mad cow, Alzheimers, Scrapie, all look VERY similar, almost identical in their pathologies.

[Retiredguy]

Anywhere there is domesticated animals, namely cattle and sheep, there is a chance "CWD" will eventually show up.

Last time mad cow showed up in Canada they just simply sent cows to slaughter at a younger age. Before the time needed for symptoms to show up... Our food supply is a total mess.

People here have mentioned moose, is that true? Last I checked they didn't seem to be getting it.

CWD, CJD, Mad cow, Alzheimers, Scrapie, all look VERY similar, almost identical in their pathologies.

Yes CWD can infect moose. First infected moose in Canada was found at least a decade ago. Last years CWD testing AB turned up 5 positive moose.

[superdrupal]

People here have mentioned moose, is that true? Last I checked they didn't seem to be getting it.

To add to what Retiredguy mentioned, it infects animals in the cervid family which is deer, moose, elk and caribou.

[HarryToolips]

https://www.richmond-news.com/bc-new...-moose-8303393