The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (DNR) announced today that three free-ranging white-tailed deer, collected last week in Hampshire County as part of an intensive Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) surveillance effort, tested “suspect positive” for the disease. The University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory screened the samples using the Read more
CWD UPDATE 64 September 23, 2005 The government of Alberta has announced that they have selected an international panel of experts in prion disease to form the Alberta Prion Research Institute Advisory Council. This group will advise the group on proposals for use of the $38 million provided for the Read more
SALEM – During the upcoming deer and elk hunting seasons, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is asking deer and elk hunters to assist with collection of vital wildlife disease information. “We are asking hunters to bring their deer and elk carcasses to biological check stations or their nearest Read more
PRICE, UTAH — Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) personnel are in the process of monitoring the presence and prevalence of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the State of Utah. A small number of deer harvested in the state have tested positive for CWD during the past four years. Sportsmen participating Read more
Richmond, VA — The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) will be holding public information meetings to provide an overview of the Department’s response to the report in September of the first confirmed case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a white-tailed deer in West Virginia. The deer Read more
FITCHBURG – Once again, hunters interested in donating deer harvested in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) western Disease Eradication Zone (DEZ) of southwest Wisconsin to food pantries have that option thanks to many area meat processors. Hunters can take their DEZ-harvested deer for donation to cooperating meat processors from Sept. Read more
Californians who hunt out of state and return with the game must follow a state regulation designed to prevent the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease. State residents who bring deer and elk into California must comply with a strict regulation designed to prevent the introduction of the disease or face Read more
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. – The Illinois Department of Natural Resource (IDNR) will continue surveillance for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild deer by testing tissue samples taken from adult deer provided by archery hunters who voluntarily participate in the effort in select northern Illinois counties. Tests will be conducted on samples Read more
Last Chronic Wasting Disease testing was statewide in 2002 GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Department of Natural Resources will be conducting surveillance of adult deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the 16 county Northeast Region this fall. Last sampled in 2002, the DNR is beginning a process of out-state Read more
CWD UPDATE 63 September 19, 2005 Case Western University reports that they generated transgenic mice expressing the elk or human prion protein (PrP) in a PrP-null background. After intracerebral inoculation with elk CWD prion, two lines of “humanized” transgenic mice that are susceptible to human prions failed to develop the Read more