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Bad news from the North: CWD sweeps through Alberta & Saskatchewan deer & elk herds
Bad news about Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) from Canada. Bob Weber from the Canadian News staff reports in Spreading wildlife disease threatens deer, elk and maybe humans, new research says:
The continuing spread of a fatal wildlife disease in Alberta and Saskatchewan has a federal agency recommending a deer cull across a wide swath of the Prairies.
And soon-to-be-published research on chronic wasting disease has raised new fears about whether the illness could infect humans.
“I would say this question was answered with 'yes,”' said Hermann Schaetzl, a veterinary scientist at the University of Calgary.
Schaetzl's work was discussed in a recent report from the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, which advises the federal government on agriculture policy. Earlier this month, the institute concluded that in addition to human health concerns, the disease's spread over the last decade threatens Western Canada's agriculture, wildlife and food security.
And soon-to-be-published research on chronic wasting disease has raised new fears about whether the illness could infect humans.
“I would say this question was answered with 'yes,”' said Hermann Schaetzl, a veterinary scientist at the University of Calgary.
Schaetzl's work was discussed in a recent report from the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, which advises the federal government on agriculture policy. Earlier this month, the institute concluded that in addition to human health concerns, the disease's spread over the last decade threatens Western Canada's agriculture, wildlife and food security.
Read more: https://www.bluestemprairie.com/bluestemprairie/2021/07/bad-news-from-the-north-cwd-sweeps-through-alberta-saskatchewan-deer-elk-herds.html
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more bad shit is on the way.
That's likely.
Fortunately for the planet, humans will be extinct soon.
That seems unlikely... unless there's some extinction-level meteor collision "Deep Impact" event that we haven't heard about yet.
It won't be now, but it won't last the next 500,000 years either.
Lulz! (But you said "soon".)
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