Fears of Chronic Wasting Disease
Since Chronic Wasting Disease, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy similar to Mad Cow Disease, can pass from wild populations of deer to deer in farms, there has been some fear of contamination of the food supply . Recently, cases of CWD have been found in both farmed and wild cervids in the US and western Canada Chronic Wasting Disease. European farms in Scandinavia may also have had several cases. Farmers now have had tests developed especially for the particular species they raise to obtain better results than those used on cattle.
New Zealand appears to be free of Chronic Wasting Disease. The New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture undertakes an extensive testing programme which would identify the disease if it occurred in the national deer herd.
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