CWD in Norway – a state of emergency for the future of cervids (Phase II). Opinion of the panel on Biological Hazards.

• Main Author: Norwegian Scientific Committee For Food Safety VKM
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: vkm; norwegian scientific committee for food safety; norwegian food safety authority; norwegian environment agency; risk assessment; cwd; chronic wasting disease; http//id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C1470; http//id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C18728; http//id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C6675; Nordfjella; Norway; Alces alces; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4035618; https://zenodo.org/record/4035618

Unless comprehensive steps are taken to tackle Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), it will continue to spread within the Norwegian cervid population. The disease will not disappear by itself. This is the main conclusion of a new risk assessment report published by the Norwegian Scientific Committee for f...