MADISON — Laboratory results from white-tailed deer killed on a Portage County farm earlier this year show that 60 of the 76 animals tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The deer — a mix of does and yearlings — were destroyed Jan. 17 by U.S. Department of Agriculture shooters under Read more
CWD UPDATE 71 March 1, 2006 The latest update from Wisconsin shows that they have collected 27,147 samples and have results back from 23,853. They have 128 positives so far with 11 of them in the Herd Reduction Zone and the remainder in the Eradication Zone. Since 2002 they have Read more
WATERBURY, VT – The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department reports that test results from a Cornell University pathology lab show none of the 276 deer sampled from deer taken by hunters during Vermont s 2005 deer hunting seasons was positive for Chronic Wasting Disease. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a Read more
CHEYENNE — Chronic wasting disease has pretty much established itself in some mule deer herds around Thermopolis in recent years, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s latest surveillance efforts show. Game and Fish commissioners on Friday adopted a new management plan that aims to slow the spread of the fatal Read more
Alberta has documented another four cases of chronic wasting disease in wild deer near the Alberta-Saskatchwan boundary. This brings the total of the number of deer with confirmed cases of the disease in the province to eight since the first case was discovered last September. The federal Canadian Food Inspection Read more
MADISON – Department of Natural Resources biologists will conduct an aerial deer population count in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) Disease Eradication Zones (DEZ) beginning the week of February 20, weather permitting. Agency biologists will use a helicopter to determine the number of deer in the 1,280 square mile western Read more
Additional samples taken to monitor chronic wasting disease prevalance ST. FRANCIS – Kansas Department Wildlife and Parks staff collected a total of 51 deer in Cheyenne County this week, in follow-up sampling after chronic wasting disease was detected in a whitetail doe taken during the 2005 firearms deer season. The Read more
Frankfort, KY – “It’s a risk we strongly feel Kentucky doesn’t want to take,” said Dr. Jon Gassett, commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR). Gassett’s comment comes in response to proposed Senate Bill 129, which would re-open the threat of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) becoming Read more
DODGEVILLE – Don Bates recently accepted the newly created position of chronic wasting disease (CWD) operations supervisor for southwest Wisconsin, the state agency announced today. Mr. Bates, 49, is now responsible for overseeing all CWD field personnel in the western Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ) and Herd Reduction Zone (HRZ), along Read more
Waukesha, Wis. Ongoing surveillance by the state Department of Natural Resources has detected a chronic wasting disease (CWD) positive deer outside of the Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ), the state agency announced today. The deer was found in Walworth County in the CWD Herd Reduction Zone (HRZ), an area covering all Read more