Anthrax emergency response plan (AERP) /

The overall objectives of the AERP are to reduce the size and impact of anthrax outbreaks in wood bison, and reduce the risk of public exposure. [...] That summer, the outbreak also spread west of the Slave River to the Grand Detour area and the Park Central region of WBNP, where 242 and 47 dead bison were found, respectively, between the middle of July and the middle of August. [...] The disease reoccurred in the Lake One area in the summer of 2001, where between the end of June and the end of July, 92 bison carcasses and one moose carcass were discovered. [...] The epidemiology of anthrax in northern Canada is not completely understood, and is the subject of ongoing scheduled and opportunistic research by the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT), Department of Environment, and Natural Resources (ENR) in order to better understand, predict and manage anthrax outbreaks. [...] Factors to be considered before making this public recommendation should include the extent of the outbreak, the accessibility of the area, and the time period from the last reported death.