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Colorado State University Study Looks at Test to Identify Chronic Wasting Disease in Wildlife
FORT COLLINS – A Colorado State University study is developing and evaluating a more sensitive test for chronic wasting disease – including the potential to test for infection in live animals, animal products and the environment – through a project funded by Denver-based Morris Animal Foundation. The disease, which affects Read more…
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Lichens May Aid in Combating Deadly Chronic Wasting Disease in Wildlife
MADISON, Wis. – Certain lichens can break down the infectious proteins responsible for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a troubling neurological disease fatal to wild deer and elk and spreading throughout the United States and Canada, according to U.S. Geological Survey research published today in the journal PLoS ONE. Like other Read more…
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CWD Vaccine Information
Canadian researchers visited Wisconsin on October 4, 2010 and held an informational meeting with officials and wildlife managers to share their CWD vaccine research progress. The guest speakers were Scott Napper, lead researcher from Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization and International Vaccine Center (VIDO-InterVac), Peter Yim and Scott Adams of Read more…
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New CWD Program Manager for the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Dr. Patty Klein has been selected to replace Dr. Dean Goeldner as the new CWD program manager for the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service effective June 21, 2010. Dr. Klein has served as a Senior Staff Veterinarian and Avian Disease Specialist at the USDA/APHIS/Veterinary Services- National Center for Read more…
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Declaration of Prion as a Pest under FIFRA
This document notifies the public that the Administrator of EPA has forwarded to the Secretaries of Agriculture and Health and Human Services a draft proposed rule under sections 21 and 25(a) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). The draft rule proposes to declare a prion (i.e., proteinaceous Read more…
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Colorado State Awarded $2.5 Million NSF Grant to Study Prevalence and Spread of Chronic Wasting Disease
FORT COLLINS – A Colorado State University research team has been awarded a $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant to study transmission of chronic wasting disease. Chronic wasting disease, or CWD, affects members of the deer family and is similar to diseases like scrapie in sheep and mad cow disease Read more…
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Prions Found in Feces of Deer Asymptomatic for Chronic Wasting Disease
Scientists have discovered that deer asymptomatic for a fatal brain condition known as chronic wasting disease excrete the infectious prions that cause the disease in their feces. The finding, they say, suggests a plausible explanation for transmission of the disease among deer and, possibly, elk and moose in the environment. Read more…
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Species Barrier May Protect Macaques from Chronic Wasting Disease
Data from an ongoing multi-year study suggest that people who consume deer and elk with chronic wasting disease (CWD) may be protected from infection by an inability of the CWD infectious agent to spread to people. The results to date show that 14 cynomolgus macaques exposed orally or intracerebrally to Read more…