No positives were found in tests of 1,160 lymph node samples taken from wild deer harvested during the 2003 firearms season, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced today. Today’s results are the first from 10,000 samples that were taken from wild deer harvested by hunters. Samples were collected Read more
Michigan Department of Natural Resources officials today reminded Michigan residents that supplemental feeding of deer is against the law in every Michigan county. There are no exceptions to this regulation, which was enacted by the Natural Resources Commission on May 16, 2003. Supplemental feeding concentrates deer in a relatively small Read more
The Department of Environmental Management has banned the importation of deer and elk from states where chronic wasting disease has been found. The ban also extends to some of the animals’ parts, and forbids releasing any of the animals into the wild. The new rules are now permanent. They had Read more
PIERRE – Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) test results for elk, white-tailed deer and mule deer continue to arrive to the state Dept. of Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) from the South Dakota State University Laboratory, and GFP officials say two white-tailed males harvested in the Black Hills of South Dakota Read more
Madison , Wis. – A wild white-tailed deer from Brighton township in Kenosha County, just north of Paddock Lake, has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). “Like the positives found earlier in Rock and Walworth counties, this Kenosha County positive is disappointing but not unexpected. The closeness of known Read more
WASHINGTON–Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has diagnosed a presumptive positive case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in an adult Holstein cow in the state of Washington. “Despite this finding, we remain confident in the safety of our beef supply,” Veneman said. “The Read more
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. — Nine additional cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) have been detected in northern Illinois – including one in DeKalb County – as a result of testing conducted on samples collected from hunter-harvested deer during the first firearm season this fall, Department of Natural Resources Director Joel Brunsvold Read more
The spread of chronic wasting disease toward Yellowstone’s famed game herds alarms wildlife lovers, but two top researchers think biologists will discover a powerful ally in an old frontier villain. The wolf. Wildlife managers have never controlled a major outbreak of chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurologic malady of deer Read more
Illinois has nine more confirmed cases of a fatal deer disease first discovered in the state last fall near Roscoe, wildlife officials announced Friday. The new cases were found among 1,100 hunter-harvested deer tested for chronic wasting disease during the first session of the firearm season last month. The latest Read more
LARAMIE — Statewide surveillance to monitor chronic wasting disease (CWD) is finished, thanks to new testing procedures that allowed the Game and Fish Department to analyze more than twice the number of samples in half the time. The ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay) test, which certified in 2002, allowed G&F Read more