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
RAPID CITY, S.D. — The big game seasons have closed in South Dakota, and Game Fish and Parks biologists are finishing up their Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance Program for 2008. GFP tested 2,052 elk, white-tailed deer and mule deer from July 1 to January 20, 2009. Of the total samples, Read more
In the rogues’ gallery of microscopic infectious agents, the prion is the toughest hombre in town. Warped pathogens that lack both DNA and RNA, prions are believed to cause such fatal brain ailments as chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and moose, mad cow disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep Read more
The chronic wasting disease 2008 fall hunter surveillance program is winding down. As of January 7, 2009, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development lab has completed tests on just over 3,000 heads. Individual hunters are notified of negative results when they are available through the Alberta Relm site, and letters are Read more
KDWP awaiting lab results on more samples from 2008 deer season Three Kansas white-tailed deer taken by hunters during the 2008 deer season have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in analysis of tissue samples collected in recent weeks by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. The three Read more