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Warning issued over Alberta bison diseases

By Mark Blackburn
Aug 01, 2011

The government of Alberta is warning First Nations and Metis people who hunt bison that one of the largest remaining herds is showing evidence of two serious diseases that can be communicated to humans.

APTN National News
The government of Alberta is warning First Nations and Metis people who hunt bison that one of the largest remaining herds is showing evidence of two serious diseases that can be communicated to humans.

APTN National News reporter Noemi LoPinto has that story.

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