Report Available: Management of Chronic Wasting Disease in Canada

The second of two national workshops to review the management of Chronic Wasting Disease in Canada was held in Saskatoon on 5-6 April 2011. The report from this workshop, entitled A Proposal for Canada’s National Chronic Wasting Disease Control Strategy (2011), now is available for download as a PDF file from the following site: Download Report.

These workshop were co-sponsored by the Alberta Prion Research Institute, PrioNet Canada and the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre, and addressed past practices, current conditions, current science and future risks and options..

This report and the report from the first workshop also are available on the “Publications” page of the CCWHC website at http://www.ccwhc.ca/publications_and_newsletters.php.