Samples taken from North Dakota deer, elk and moose during the 2008 hunting season have tested negative for chronic wasting disease and bovine tuberculosis, according to Dr. Dan Grove, wildlife veterinarian for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Last fall, samples for CWD testing were taken from nearly 2,300 Read more…
Seven Deer Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease During 2009 Spring Collections in Hampshire County, West Virginia Test results have detected the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) agent in a total of seven white-tailed deer sampled during the 2009 spring collections in Hampshire County, according to the West Virginia Division of Read more…
PHOENIX (AP) – The Arizona Game and Fish Department announced Monday that tests conducted on thousands of elk and deer either killed in the state by hunters or by automobiles have found no indication of a brain-killing disease previously found in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. The department said it found Read more…
WASHINGTON, March 30, 2009–The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing changes to a final rule that establishes a herd certification program to eliminate chronic wasting disease (CWD) from farmed or captive cervids in the United States. In the final rule, participating deer, elk Read more…
CWD-positive deer reported from 2,693 samples collected by KDWP PRATT — The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) has reported 10 chronic wasting disease (CWD) cases from among almost 2,700 deer tissue samples collected and submitted for lab analysis by KDWP in recent months. Eight of the CWD-positive deer Read more…
ANTIGO, Wis. – Northern Wisconsin’s deer herd has been given a clean bill of health. After testing more than 8,700 tissue samples from deer in 18 northern Wisconsin counties, biologists found no signs of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) or Tuberculosis (TB). The Department of Natural Resources exceeded its goal to Read more…
KDWP awaiting lab results on more samples from 2008 deer season Five more Kansas white-tailed deer have been confirmed positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), bringing to eight the total number of CWD incidents from the 2008 Kansas deer seasons. The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks is still awaiting Read more…
Testing conducted during last year’s deer-gun season COLUMBUS, OH – For the seventh 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. According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Read more…
HARRISBURG – Samples taken from the 39 hunter-killed elk during the state’s 2008 hunting season have all tested negative for chronic wasting disease (CWD), according to Dr. Walt Cottrell, the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s wildlife veterinarian. Samples also tested negative for brucellosis and tuberculosis. Cottrell noted that the Game Commission still Read more…
Chronic Wasting Disease found in a farmed elk from Olmsted County Mandatory surveillance program leads to detection of positive elk; state initiates investigation ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Board of Animal Health today announced that a farmed elk from an Olmsted County herd tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease Read more…