Further efforts planned to maintain pressure against the disease. Edmonton… Twenty-four new cases of chronic wasting disease have been detected in wild deer along the Saskatchewan border, bringing the total number of cases in Alberta to 53. Alberta government staff recently held public meetings in communities most affected by chronic Read more
EDMONTON – Twenty-four more cases of chronic wasting disease have been found in Alberta’s wild deer, the Sustainable Resource Development of Alberta announced Tuesday. The results, from a 2007-2008 testing program, bring the province’s count of the disease up to 53 cases. CWD affects the central nervous system and causes Read more
FORT COLLINS, Colo., –Researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and Colorado State University (CSU) recently completed their third year of evaluating and validating the first live rectal-tissue biopsy method for detecting chronic wasting disease (CWD) in captive and wild elk. To date, Read more
HARRISBURG – Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was not detected in samples taken from hunter-killed deer during the state’s 2007 hunting season, according to Dr. Walt Cottrell, Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife veterinarian. In 2007, 3,800 samples from hunter-killed deer were tested, and CWD was not detected. This marked the fifth year Read more
Charges are expected against a Lake Holcombe man who allegedly trapped live deer, keeping them in pens with deer on his licensed deer farm. State conservation wardens on Tuesday entered the fenced property of Roger E. Hattamer, 51, 30759 260th Ave., Holcombe, in northern Chippewa County with search warrants and Read more
Animals found dead in early-April near Nipawin in province’s east-central region The first-ever cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild elk have been discovered in Saskatchewan, but the provincial government hasn’t been very public about it. The animals were found dead west of Nipawin in early April, close to Read more
EDMONTON – University of Alberta scientists will use new funding to find out how much testing needs to be done before consumers are confident the beef they’re eating is BSE-free. The study is one of four projects to share in $1.9 million awarded to U of A researchers by PrioNet. Read more
Test results have detected the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) agent in a total of 11 white-tailed deer collected during the 2008 spring collections in Hampshire County, West Virginia, according to the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (DNR). All of the deer testing positive for CWD were collected by Wildlife Read more
Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan have been given a $1.2 million boost in their efforts to find solutions to threats posed by prion diseases. The funding, provided by PrioNet Canada, is part of an $8 million total injection into 19 projects by 60 researchers across the country. The goal Read more
The Arizona Game and Fish Department has concluded another sampling season for chronic wasting disease (CWD) and reports that lab tests found no presence of the wildlife disease in any of the 2,157 hunter-harvested or road-killed deer and elk sampled during Arizona’s 2007-08 hunt season. The department has tested nearly Read more