Parks Canada monitoring anthrax outbreak in Wood Buffalo National Park
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FORT SMITH, N.W.T. — Parks Canada says it’s monitoring an anthrax outbreak in distant areas of Wooden Buffalo Nationwide Park.
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The company says workers have noticed not less than 59 bison carcasses within the park and the deaths are suspected to be attributable to anthrax, which primarily impacts hoofed animals.
The micro organism that causes anthrax happens naturally within the soil, which bison can contract from wallowing in mud baths.
A lab has confirmed the presence of anthrax in three of the useless bison.
The park, the nation’s largest nationwide park, stretches from northeastern Alberta into the Northwest Territories.
Parks Canada says useful resource conservation workers are conducting each day flights to observe the extent of the outbreak.
A nationwide incident administration crew is helping with the disposal of carcasses.
It says danger to the general public stays low and road-accessible customer services stay secure.
