Learning from outbreaks of bovine tuberculosis near Riding Mountain National Park: applications to a foreign animal disease outbreak.
Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, is home to a population of free-roaming elk (Cervus elaphus manitobensis) that have been found to be infected with Mycobacterium bovis, the agent of bovine tuberculosis (TB). The disease has also been found in a number of cattle herds near the Park and, as a result, Manitoba has been assigned a split status for bovine TB. A number of government agencies, with input from representatives from the wildlife and agricultural sectors, have responded by devising a program to detect, investigate, control, eradicate, and prevent TB in both wild and domestic animals. Experience from these efforts can be applied to the control of other diseases, such a foreign animal disease, elsewhere in Canada.
Animal Disease Surveillance Unit, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 3851 Fallowfield Road, Nepean, Ontario K2H 8P9. wlees@inspection.gc.ca
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D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D000835:Animals, Wild; D002417:Cattle; D003670:Deer; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008350:Manitoba / Q000453:epidemiology; D009163:Mycobacterium bovis / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000662:veterinary*