What We Heard: Dialogue on Chronic Wasting Disease and the Canadian Agriculture and Agri-food Sectors: Current Knowledge, Risks and Policy Options
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) presents real risks to trade in agricultural products, for food security among Northern, remote, and First Nations communities and the future of all cervids including already threatened species such as the Boreal Caribou, not to mention the potential risks of human transmission.
CAPI has highlighted actions that should be seriously considered in the fight to prevent further spread of CWD, including a pan-Canadian approach with improved governance using a One Health approach, boosting prion research, winding down all cervid farms with remediation on those contaminated and implementing buffer zones with the potential for aggressive culling to prevent the spread of the disease.