CODY- Chronic wasting disease (CWD) a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk and moose, has been discovered for a second time in a deer hunt area this fall, bringing the known total of CWD areas in the Big Horn Basin to nine. A mule deer buck taken on October 15, Read more
The state Game and Fish Department will continue its Hunter-Harvested Surveillance program during the 2009 hunting season by sampling deer for chronic wasting disease and bovine tuberculosis from 17 units in western North Dakota and two in the northeast. In addition, all moose and elk harvested in the state are Read more
Hunters and motorists are reminded that new regulations governing the transport of hunter harvested and vehicle killed deer from the chronic wasting disease – Management Zone (CWD-MZ) of southern Wisconsin took effect on Sept. 1. The new rules, approved last year by the state Natural Resources Board, the seven citizen-member Read more
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a fatal, degenerative brain wasting of elk, white-tailed and mule deer, has not been detected in Texas, but maintaining surveillance for the condition is essential for animal disease response and trade purposes. The Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC), the state’s livestock and poultry health regulatory agency, Read more
The discovery of chronic wasting disease in Saskatchewan deer about 100 kilometres from the Manitoba border has led to new testing requirements for hunters from The Pas to Swan River. Manitoba’s Conservation Department wants the head and neck of any harvested deer to be dropped off at a depot so Read more
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
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
New rules governing the transport of hunter-harvested and vehicle-killed deer from the Chronic Wasting Disease management zone of southern Wisconsin take effect on September 1. According to the Department of Natural Resources, the new rules aim to prevent the tissues most likely to contain CWD from being brought to areas Read more
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has not found any evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) after extensive testing of the state’s white-tailed deer population. The FWC tested 582 free-ranging deer during the past year and more than 4,000 deer during the past seven years, with no CWD-positive Read more
MADISON – Testing of deer shot last year within the “core area” of chronic wasting disease (CWD) infection in southwest Wisconsin showed an increase in the rate of infection or disease prevalence. Prevalence is the proportion of animals that test positive for CWD, the always fatal nervous system disease of Read more