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Welcome to the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance's
web site.
This site is a joint project of the Boone and Crockett
Club, Mule Deer Foundation, and Rocky
Mountain Elk Foundation. These non-profit wildlife conservation
organizations formed the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance in January
2002 to address CWD. Other organizations have since joined the Alliance.
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The mission of the CWD Alliance is to promote responsible and accurate communications regarding CWD, and to support strategies that effectively control CWD to minimize its impact on wild, free-ranging cervids including deer, elk, and moose.
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The CWD Alliance and
its partner organizations are
committed to providing timely, scientifically accurate information
regarding chronic wasting disease, its impacts on wildlife
and humans, and recommendations for its control. |
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What's New:
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Kansas : Four More CWD Presumptive Positive Tests In
It’s likely that four more deer taken in northwest Kansas will be confirmed to have had chronic wasting disease (CWD). So far, a total of 10 samples taken from deer killed by hunters this fall have shown presumptive positive results for CWD at the K-State Diagnostic Veterinary Lab in Manhattan. Those presumptive positives have been sent to the National Veterinary Services Lab (NVSL) in Ames, Iowa for confirmation. Six samples that showed presumptive positive results in December were recently confirmed positive by the NVSL. Read more... |
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Virginia : Chronic Wasting Disease Found in White-tailed Deer in Virginia
The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) received laboratory confirmation on January 19, 2010, that a white-tailed deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). This is the first confirmed case of CWD in Virginia. The deer was killed by a hunter in Frederick County less than one mile from the West Virginia line. With this case, Virginia now joins 17 other states and Canadian provinces with CWD, five of which are east of the Mississippi River. Read more... |
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West Virginia : Sixteen Additional Deer Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease in Hampshire County, West Virginia
Preliminary test results indicate the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) agent was present in 16 hunter-harvested deer collected in Hampshire County during the 2009 deer firearms hunting season. Read more... |
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Ohio : Chronic Wasting Disease Not Detected in Ohio Deer
For the eighth straight year, testing of Ohio's deer herd has found no evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD), a degenerative brain disease that affects elk, mule deer and white-tailed deer. Read more... |
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Kansas : Testing for Chronic Wasting Disease in Early Stages
Testing for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in samples collected from deer taken during the 2009 season is only about one-third complete, but the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) reports that six samples have shown presumptive positive. Read more... |
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Illinois : CWD Deer Season
Hunters in Boone, DeKalb, McHenry, and Winnebago counties and that portion of Kane County west of Ill. Rt. 47 can participate in the special seven-day Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Deer Season on Dec. 31, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010 and Jan. 15-17, 2010 to help control deer densities and the spread of chronic wasting disease. Read more... |
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