Bovine TB in Elk

Officials from Riding Mountain National Park say just three of more than a thousand elk and deer tested have bovine tuberculosis.
During the winter and spring of 2007, 128 elk were captured and blood tested as part of the park’’s surveillance and monitoring program. Three of these animals tested positive for bovine TB on culture. The animals were captured from a helicopter using a net fired from a netgun, a blood sample was taken, and then were released wearing collars for research and tracking purposes.
Manitoba Conservation, in co-operation with Parks Canada and Manitoba Agriculture, Food, and Rural Initiatives, also continued its surveillance of hunter-killed elk and deer continued during the 2006-07 hunting seasons. Approximately 950 elk and deer samples were collected from hunters and then examined at the Riding Mountain National Park lab.
None of these animals tested positive for bovine TB.
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