ALEDO, ILL. – Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich today signed legislation at the Mercer Court House in Aledo allowing establishment of special hunting seasons to help combat wildlife diseases threatening Illinois’ deer herd. The new law provides needed flexibility in efforts to contain the spread of chronic wasting disease, which was Read more
On May 20, 2003 the Canadian Food Inspection Service notified the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) of a confirmed case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a domestic cow from a farm in northern Alberta. USDA-APHIS immediately placed Canada under its BSE restriction guidelines. Read more
HELENA — The state Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission unanimously approved a preliminary rule that would ban the importation of deer and elk carcasses into the state from places where chronic wasting disease has been reported. The new rule, which the commission is expected to make final in August, is Read more
CWD UPDATE June 13, 2003 The ongoing investigation into the BSE case in Canada has resulted in the quarantine of 18 farms in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. All cattle tested in the trace forward segment have come back without any more positives. Testing of cattle in the trace back Read more
Today, Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI), co-chair of the new Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus Task Force on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), introduced two bills that will assist states in combating the spread of the debilitating disease found in wild and domestic mule deer and elk herds. Both of Kind’s CWD bills were Read more
EDMONTON – Federal officials have been sitting for 2 1/2 months on news that a second Alberta deer tested positive for chronic-wasting disease, a mad-cow variant that has forced the slaughter of thousands of elk on the Prairies, the National Post has learned. Ray Heinen, who farms white-tail deer near Read more
MADISON – With the help of three grants from the Department of Defense (DOD), researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison will delve deeper into a molecular and environmental understanding of chronic wasting disease (CWD). The research will investigate genetic variations of the disease among deer, the transmission of CWD to Read more
Oregon’s Fish and Wildlife Commission last week adopted a permanent rule that aims to prevent the importation of chronic wasting disease to Oregon. Hunters bringing meat back from states with CWD and cannot import any portion of the head or spinal column unless it has been cleaned of all meat Read more
LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas’ deer herd got a clean bill of health this week. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission had over 250 deer tested recently and none tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease. Chronic Wasting Disease, or CWD, is a nervous system disease that has been observed in deer Read more
LANSING — Chronic wasting disease has yet to rear its head in Michigan, but state wildlife experts say the presence of the deadly infectious disease in neighboring states demands vigilance to avoid a natural resources and economic crisis. Chronic wasting disease “poses such a threat to our wildlife that it Read more