The Manitoba government is planning to build a health lab in Dauphin to detect a harmful disease in deer that experts belive will eventually arrive in the province.
Manitoba Sustainable Development posted a request for proposals online late last month to build the Dauphin Big Game Health Laboratory.
The province already has a lab in Dauphin as part of its disease surveillance programs, and chronic wasting disease is the main concern, a Sustainable Development spokesperson said.
Chronic wasting disease is a fatal neurological disease related to mad cow disease and there’s no known cure.
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