Researchers from the University of Calgary and from Germany will be looking at whether Chronic Wasting Disease in deer can spread to human populations. CWD is spreading through deer and elk herds in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The $5 million study is the largest prion project ever funded by the Alberta Read more
The first results of a new, live-animal test for chronic wasting disease found that 13 of 117 captured elk in Rocky Mountain National Park were positive. The results mark the initial fruits of an unprecedented research and population-control project in the park. It was designed, in part, to evaluate the Read more
Test results have detected the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) agent in four additional deer collected during the first week of the 2008 spring collections in Hampshire County, according to the West Virginia Division of Natural Resoures. The deer were collected by sharp-shooter teams working in the Slanesville/Augusta area of the Read more
More than 2,000 samples tested This year, chronic wasting disease (CWD) was detected by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) in three wild white-tailed bucks harvested during the rifle season northeast of Oberlin in Decatur County. Nebraska Game and Parks Commission staff detected CWD in a white-tailed buck Read more
Richmond, VA — After extensive testing of deer from every county in the Commonwealth, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) reports that there is no evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Virginia’s white-tailed deer population. During the 2007-2008 hunting season, 1,140 samples were collected from free-ranging Read more
LINCOLN, Neb. – Testing of deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD) along the Kansas border produced negative test results. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission in southern Red Willow County and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks in northern Decatur County last month tested 63 deer and found no Read more
Ongoing surveillance for the presence of chronic wasting disease in wild deer in Illinois last fall and this winter has detected 24 deer testing positive for CWD. The IDNR has received results on tests of more than 4,100 deer which were harvested by hunters or taken by IDNR personnel as Read more
Lab analysis reported on chronic wasting disease OBERLIN — Tissue samples from deer collected earlier this month in Decatur County all have tested negative for chronic wasting disease (CWD), reports the Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks. After three deer taken by hunters in that area during the 2007 hunting Read more
Efforts continued with CWD surveillance through sampling of hunter killed deer statewide and mandatory deer checks in the Oneida-Madison County CWD Containment Area. Despite testing approximately 7,470 deer (including more than 1,400 deer from the CWD Containment Area), no cases were detected. CWD is a rare neurological disease that affects Read more