Chronic wasting disease has been discovered on another game farm in Saskatchewan. It is the fourth case in the province so far this year.
The latest case involves a white tail deer from a farm in the Prince Albert area. The animal was discovered to be carrying the disease through a mandatory testing program for all animals over the age of 12 months that die on farms.
Canada Food Inspection Agency scientists say the disease poses very little risk to humans.
However, they say to prevent the spread of CWD to other animals or farms it is necessary to slaughter the entire herd.
Alex McIsaac, from CIFA, says slaughter is the only way to do an accurate test. "Unfortunately we don't have a live animal test at this time so that's the only way we can determine how far it has spread, unfortunately it's by destroying animals and using this post-mortem sample."
