Saskatoon’s Forestry Farm puts down seven deer because of chronic wasting disease

A male whitetail deer recently brought in to the Saskatoon Forestry Farm & Zoo has been destroyed after chronic wasting disease (CWD) was confirmed at the farm where the deer was originally from.

CWD is a fatal disease of the nervous system.

Everything is under control now, but the deer tested positive for the illness back in December. That caused six other whitetail deer to be euthanized for testing as well.

“It is a disease that only affects other deer,” said Forestry Farm manager John Moran. “It does not transmit to other mammals. There is no scientific proof that it can be transmissible to humans.”