Use of spatial clusters by red deer (Cervus elaphus) to identify transmission hot spots in a Chronic Wasting Disease context

• Main Author: Skjelbostad, Isa Nergård
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: CWD; cluster; spatial clusters; cervus elaphus; chronic wasting disease; prion; aggregation; red deer; disease transmission; Nordfjella; Norway; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/79616; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-82802

Abstract In 2016 Chronic Wasting Disease was discovered in Nordfjella, Norway for the first time in a female reindeer (Rangifer tarandus). Since then Norwegian nature management have implemented several measures in the affected area in Nordfjella and its surrounding municipalities to stop the spread...