According to Pennsylvania Game Commission officials, the good news for a Lancaster County hunter who visited Hampshire County, West Virginia, is that the two deer he brought back from that state’s 2005 seasons tested negative for chronic wasting disease (CWD). Hampshire County is the area of West Virginia from which Read more
HARRISBURG – Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was not detected in samples taken from hunter-killed deer during the state’s 2005 hunting season, according to Dr. Walt Cottrell, Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife veterinarian. As CWD has been identified in New York and West Virginia in 2005, Cottrell noted that the agency continues Read more
RAPID CITY – Game, Fish and Parks’ major efforts on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) sampling of deer and elk ended with the close of hunting seasons, and results indicate the disease is still present in the same isolated areas as past years. “We again concentrated our CWD surveillance efforts in Read more
AUGUSTA, Maine – Maine’s wild deer herd shows no signs of Chronic Wasting Disease. This past year, biologists from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife sampled 819 brain tissues from deer harvested throughout Maine during the 2005 hunting season. “Testing results indicate there is no evidence of Chronic Read more
CWD UPDATE 73 March 28, 2006 Minnesota reports another captive facility with a CWD positive. The Board of Animal Health reports that a 10-year-old female white-tailed deer from a captive facility in Lac qui Parle County has tested positive for CWD. The positive test was confirmed by NVSL. Lac qui Read more
The Arizona Game and Fish Department reports lab results found no chronic wasting disease (CWD) in any of the nearly 2,500 hunter-harvested deer and elk tested from the fall 2005 hunt season. CWD is a neurological disease that does not affect humans but is fatal to deer and elk. The Read more
For the fourth year in a row, 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. State officials collected samples from hunter-harvested deer during the deer-gun season that ran November 28-December 4 last Read more
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Board of Animal Health today announced that a farmed whitetailed deer from a Lac Qui Parle County herd tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The brain stem and lymph nodes from a 10-year-old female white-tailed deer were submitted to the U.S. Department of Read more
CWD UPDATE 72 March 14, 2006 Everyone probably has heard of the third positive for BSE in the U. S. This one was in an Alabama Santa Gertrudis cow that was 10 years old or older, meaning that it was born before the feed ban. Epidemiology of the animal is Read more
MADISON — The public will have an opportunity to comment on proposed deer hunting rules in zones established to control and eliminate chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin at a series of open house meetings and public hearings across southern Wisconsin. The Department of Natural Resources will conduct five deer management Read more