Chronic Wasting Disease -- Canada
A Quebec farm has been placed under quarantine after an animal that was raised there was diagnosed with chronic wasting disease, a degenerative disease that affects deer, elk and other cervid mammals. This is the 1st time the disease has been documented in the province.
Quebec's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food discovered the infected animal in the Laurentians region, north of Montreal, during an inspection of a slaughterhouse. The animal was put down, and its meat did not go
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6044854&promed&0
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