Preliminary test shows ill deer at shooting preserve near Ashland A white-tailed deer from a shooting preserve in northern Wisconsin has tested positive on a screening test for chronic wasting disease – a discovery that has the potential to bring the disease to a new part of the state. Complicating Read more
Agriculture Secretary Russell C. Redding and Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe today unveiled an updated plan designed prevent the spread of a disease that threatens the state’s deer and elk populations but poses no threat to humans. The officials said the improved Chronic Wasting Disease, or CWD, response Read more
CHEYENNE – A mule deer buck harvested on Oct. 16 in hunt area 28 northeast of Hazleton in the Billy Creek Road area, has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a brain disease known to affect some deer, elk and moose. CWD had not previously been detected in this Read more
Prohibiting chronic wasting disease from entering Georgia is an ongoing effort. Anyone interested in wildlife – hunters, wildlife watchers and processors, among others – are encouraged to help keep Georgia’s quality deer herd CWD-free. CWD, a contagious neurological disease affecting deer, elk and moose, belongs to a group of diseases Read more
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
The Natural Resources Board has adopted the new 15-year plan for fighting chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin deer. View it on the department website.
A new draft of the 15-year CWD Response Plan has been posted to the DNR’s website: Download here. This draft is the version that will be submitted to the Natural Resources Board for approval. It builds on the work of the stakeholder advisory group, the outside panel review, and public Read more
The public has an opportunity to comment on a revised draft plan that would guide the Department of Natural Resources’ chronic wasting disease (CWD) management efforts for the next 15 years. “We have data about the devastating effects of CWD on deer herds in Colorado and Wyoming,” said Davin Lopez, Read more
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Game and Fish, and South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks are coordinating efforts to increase surveillance in and around the location where a mule deer taken last fall in southwestern North Dakota tested positive for chronic wasting disease. According Read more
Wisconsin and Illinois have reached agreement on guidelines for cooperative management of Chronic Wasting Disease in their states’ deer herds after the fatal neurological disease has been confirmed in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois counties. The agreement, referred to as a memorandum of understanding or MOU, identifies mutual goals for Read more