MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin is eligible for $885,000 in federal money to help fight chronic wasting disease, with three-fourths of the money intended to cover the cost of testing the state’s deer herd, U.S. Rep. Dave Obey and U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl said Thursday. The money is part of $14.9 Read more
Deer and elk hunters shouldn’t let worries about chronic wasting disease keep them from the hunt this year. Although one case was confirmed in eastern Utah this past fall, state wildlife officials haven’t been able to find any other infected animals. The wild deer was found in an area north Read more
The Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has tested about 37,000 samples of deer brains for chronic wasting disease and shipped only two suspicious samples to a federal laboratory in Iowa to verify findings, the administrator of the Madison lab said Wednesday. One of the samples was a wild deer from Sheboygan Read more
CWD UPDATE April 17, 2003 At the recent North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, several nonprofit organizations agreed to lobby Congress for full funding of the National Plan. Several CWD biologists are working with representatives of the organizations on the strategy to accomplish this as a unified effort. A Read more
TALLAHASSEE — Hunters don’t have to worry about chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Florida deer. At least, not for now, according to state tests. “All test results, so far, show Florida’s deer population is disease-free, and in very good condition,” said Tim Breault, the assistant director of wildlife for the Read more
Commissioners were told that so far, all wildlife samples collected during the 2002 hunting seasons have gotten a clean bill of health in testing for chronic wasting disease. Chronic wasting disease, or CWD, is a nontreatable, fatal disease that has been found in farm-raised and wild deer and elk in Read more
LARAMIE — Researchers from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and the State Veterinary Laboratory recently completed tests to monitor chronic wasting disease (CWD), a disease of some deer and elk. Researchers analyzed 2,550 samples – 1,755 deer and 795 elk — during Wyoming’s 2002 hunting season, with 105 deer Read more
MADISON, Wis. – Another 11 deer were found with chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin, all within the area where the disease was discovered a year ago, the state Department of Natural Resources reported Friday. It brings the total number of diseased deer found in the Mount Horeb area to 141, Read more
The number of whitetail deer found with a fatal brain disease in southwest Wisconsin jumped to 130 animals Friday, with the discovery of another 36, the state Department of Natural Resources reported. All were killed within the three-county area where the state wants to try to eradicate the chronic wasting Read more
COLUMBUS – Testing of Ohio’s deer herd has found no evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD), a degenerative disease that affects elk, mule deer and white-tailed deer, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Test samples from deer brought by hunters to check stations during Read more