CFIA gives up on eradicating CWD

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is giving up on eradicating Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) from the cervid (deer and elk) population.




Instead it is moving to a “control program.”


On its website, it says the “CFIA will only offer full disease response to CWD-infected cervid herds enrolled in the voluntary herd certification program.




“Of those herds eligible for CFIA-implemented disease control measures, the producer or operator will be able to opt out of a full CFIA-implemented disease response (destruction, disposal and associated decontamination).


“Any herd infected with CWD and not enrolled in the program will be subject to limited disease control measures.”