Last fall, brain and lymph node tissue samples from hunter and USDA APHIS Wildlife Services harvested white-tailed deer in Delaware were submitted to the University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine’s New Bolton Center for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) testing. 644 samples were collected in Delaware, at least 200 from Read more
PROVIDENCE – The Department of Environmental reports that recent testing for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in deer in Rhode Island has not detected the presence of the disease. Nearly 200 samples from Rhode Island’s deer herd were collected last fall and winter by DEM’s Division of Fish and Wildlife for Read more
BISMARCK, N.D. – Eleven captive white-tailed deer that escaped from a landowner’s enclosure south of here pose little risk of chronic wasting disease, the state veterinarian says. “The risk of CWD in these animals is minimal to none. This herd has been under surveillance since 1998,” Dr. Susan Keller said Read more
Preliminary testing has detected the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) agent in four more free-ranging white-tailed deer recently collected in Hampshire County as part of an ongoing and intensive CWD surveillance effort, it was announced today by the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (DNR). This brings the total of CWD-positive Read more
No evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) was detected in Massachusetts deer based on data gathered during the 2005 hunting season. MassWildlife recently received results from a federally certified veterinary diagnostic laboratory that indicate that all the deer brain, lymph node, and tonsil samples taken during last fall’s hunting season Read more
To protect Montana’s deer and elk from the impending threat of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks can no longer safely accept, hold, or rehabilitate deer and elk. FWP Region One Warden Captain Lee Anderson says that this policy is necessary because: CWD, a fatal neurological disease Read more
CWD UPDATE 74 April 17, 2006 The long awaited federal regulation on CWD in captive facilities has finally cleared USDA and is at OMB. Supposedly it will not languish for more than 90 days there and it is predicted to hit the Federal Register by the end of June or Read more
Preliminary results of tests conducted on brain tissue samples of 150 deer and elk collected in Nevada during the past year have all tested negative for chronic wasting disease (CWD), according to Dr. Dan Crowell of the Nevada Department of Agriculture. Crowell, a senior veterinary diagnostician, said Nevada has been Read more
More about CWD research at UW-Madison Scientists have confirmed that prions, the mysterious proteins thought to cause chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer, latch on tightly to certain minerals in soil and remain infectious. The discovery that prions stay deadly despite sticking to soil comes as a surprise, because while Read more
CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire’s deer population once again showed no evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD), based on monitoring data gathered during the 2005 hunting season. New Hampshire Fish and Game Deer Biologist Kent Gustafson recently received results from a federally certified veterinary diagnostic laboratory which indicate that all Read more