Western Canadian animal health surveillance activities

Animal health surveillance programs across the four western provinces

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  • Cervid
  • Chronic Wasting Disease
  • Prion
  • Northwest Territory Government
  • Northwest Territories
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A Field Guide to Common Wildlife Diseases and Parasites in the Northwest Territories

Dec/22/2020

NWT Chronic Wasting Disease

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The information in this field guide should help hunters to: • recognize sickness in an animal before they shoot; • identify a disease or parasite in an animal they have killed; • know how to protect themselves from infection; and • help wildlife agencies monitor wildlife disease and parasites Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has not been found in NWT but surveillance is taking place in order to confirm that is not present.