Madison – Encouraged by the pace of testing thus far, a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources official said Wednesday that samples from 36,000 deer could produce results on chronic wasting disease within three months. State officials had been saying that hunters might have to wait up to six months or Read more
SURVEILLANCE OF WILD ANIMALS Ongoing surveillance conducted by the Colorado Division of Wildlife indicates that chronic wasting disease (CWD) is found primarily in wild deer and elk herds in northeastern Colorado. The status of the disease outside of the northeastern “established” area remains unclear and will be further evaluated following Read more
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. — The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is allowing hunters to bring deer and elk hunted out of state back into Illinois so long as the carcasses are brought to a licensed meat processor or licensed taxidermist within 72 hours of entry into the state. The rule, effective Read more
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Game Commission employees, joined by veterinarians and laboratory technicians from the state and U.S. Departments of Agriculture, today began collecting tissue samples from 500 randomly selected hunter-killed deer throughout the Commonwealth to test for chronic wasting disease (CWD). “Currently, there are no confirmed or suspected cases of Read more
A wild deer was discovered with chronic wasting disease for the first time outside a 411-square-mile zone west of Madison, a newspaper reported. A 3-year-old buck shot in Grant County in southwestern Wisconsin during the nine-day hunting season that ended Sunday tested positive for the fatal disease, the Milwaukee Journal Read more
HERCULES, CA — December 4, 2002 — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (AMEX: BIO and BIO.B), a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research products and clinical diagnostics, announced today that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has revised the company’s existing veterinary biological permit for its rapid test used Read more
MADISON – A preliminary call-in tally of registration stations across the state shows hunters taking 261,093 deer during the regular nine-day gun deer hunt that closed Sunday. That figure is about 10 percent lower than the similar phone tally of 291,563 from Wisconsin’s 2001season, and about 20 percent lower than Read more
FITCHBURG – Hunters are reminded that the gun deer season continues in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) zones of south central Wisconsin. The gun season runs through Jan.31 in the CWD Intensive Harvest Zone of western Dane – eastern Iowa Counties and a small portion of southern Sauk County. Gun Read more
Two more elk herds in Minnesota will be destroyed for testing as the search goes on to determine how a single elk on a farm near Aitkin was exposed to chronic wasting disease, killing it last summer. The newly condemned elk are in herds where the bull, known as Elk Read more
While deer hunters tend to be a safety-conscious bunch, this year they have been asked to be especially observant in an area that has nothing to do with fluorescent orange apparel or basic firearm safety. Chronic wasting disease, commonly known as CWD, has the potential to wreak havoc on the Read more