Chronic Wasting Disease test results

CWD results for 2025/26 hunting season will be posted when available. Positive results will not be displayed online to respect the privacy of the submitter. 

On this page

• How to interpret your result
• How results are tested

How to interpret test results

Pending: Sample has been received by the regional sampling facility and is either in transit to the provincial testing facility or in the process of being tested at the provincial testing facility.

Negative: The provincial testing facility has determined there is no evidence of CWD in that sample.

Not Tested: The sample was received but not submitted to the provincial testing facility. Reasons a sample may not be submitted for testing include incorrect tissues were submitted to a drop-off freezer, a head or jaw did not contain the tissues required for testing, and/or the animal was aged as under a year old.

Unsuitable Tissue: The sample submitted was received but was deemed unsuitable for testing by the provincial testing facility. Reasons a sample may be unsuitable include the incorrect tissue was submitted, and/or the sample was too rotten or damaged to test.

How results are tested

CWD samples (including cervid heads, jaws, and hunter-collected samples) are collected through provincial CWD testing and surveillance. Surveillance submissions are collected from CWD Program drop-off freezers and taken to a regional sampling facility for sample and data collection. Once processed, samples are shipped to the Animal Health Centre laboratory in Abbotsford for CWD testing.

The provincial testing facility determines if a sample is negative or non-negative for CWD. Non-negative samples are submitted to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency laboratory where a positive or negative result is confirmed. 

Submissions to the CWD Program drop-off freezers are collected, sampled, and shipped to the testing laboratory weekly from within the CWD Management Zone during the hunting season. If your sample was submitted to a drop-off freezer outside of the CWD Management Zone, results will take longer to process.