Chronic Wasting Disease
The Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI) surveillance chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the cervid populations.
The programme include moose (Alcec alces), red deer (Cervus elaphus), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) and fallow deer (Dama dama).
The aim of the surveillance programme is to document the status of CWD in the cervid populations in Norway.
2020
A total of 22,528 samples of wild, semi-domesticated and captive Norwegian cervids were analysed in 2020. From these, one moose (Alces alces) tested positive for CWD. It was euthanized in Bamble municipality in Southern Norway due to a broken leg. Further, a case in wild reindeer was detected for the first time in Hardangervidda wild reindeer management area, within Vinje municipality. The reindeer was harvested during regular hunt. Both animals were males, 13 and 8 years old respectively. Both animals were detected with disease characteristics as described for the respective species in previous reports, i.e. detection of PrPSc in lymphoid tissue from the reindeer and only in the brain for the moose. In addition, 1 reindeer from Svalbard and 35 wild muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) from the Dovrefjell Mountains were tested and found negative for TSE.
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- Chronic wasting disease 2020 (pdf 5mb)
Previous reports
- Chronic wasting disease 2019 (pdf 5mb)
- Chronic wasting disease 2018 (pdf 3mb)
- Chronic wasting disease 2017 (pdf 2mb)
- Chronic wasting disease 2016 (pdf 4mb)
- Chronic wasting disease 2015 (pdf 1mb)
- Chronic wasting disease 2014 (pdf 539kb)
- Chronic wasting disease 2013 (pdf 1mb)
- Chronic wasting disease 2012 (pdf 1mb)
- Chronic wasting disease 2011 (pdf 904kb)
- Chronic wasting disease 2010 (pdf 616kb)
- Chronic wasting disease 2009 (pdf 530kb)
- Chronic wasting disease 2008 (pdf 497kb)
- Chronic wasting disease 2007 (p. 103) (pdf 6mb)
- Chronic wasting disease 2006 (p. 109) (pdf 3mb)
- Chronic wasting disease 2005 (p. 105) (pdf 4mb)