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Chronic wasting disease has exploded through Alberta’s deer population. Can it be stopped?

It attacks the brain. It has a 100 per cent fatality rate. And it has spread all across southern and central Alberta. Fifteen years ago, chronic wasting disease was rare in the province’s deer populations, showing up in a small percentage of animals in a handful of locations, mostly along the Saskatchewan border. In the […]

It attacks the brain. It has a 100 per cent fatality rate. And it has spread all across southern and central Alberta.

Fifteen years ago, chronic wasting disease was rare in the province’s deer populations, showing up in a small percentage of animals in a handful of locations, mostly along the Saskatchewan border.