CWD UPDATE April 21, 2004 The Governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm, has issued an executive order transferring the administration and regulation of captive cervid facilities to the Michigan DNR. This action was taken as a result of the recommendations of a blue ribbon task force that reviewed the state’s response Read more
CWD UPDATE MARCH 19, 2004 It has been a while since the last CWD update and I apologize for taking so long. A lot has been reported in the CWD field and most of the information contained in the update will be old news to most folks. On March 23, Read more
The Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (WVDL) has been the official USDA certified Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) testing facility in Wisconsin since 2002. WVDL conducted over 35,000 CWD tests in 2002-3 and more than 14,500 tests on samples collected during the 2003-4 hunting season. WVDL uses only USDA approved testing reagents Read more
Research by North Carolina State University scientists, in conjunction with scientists from the Netherlands and BioResource International, an NC State spin-off biotechnology company, has shown that, under proper conditions, an enzyme can fully degrade the prion – or protein particle – believed to be responsible for mad cow disease and Read more
A computer model that is the basis of the Colorado Division of Wildlife’s controversial strategy to kill larger numbers of deer and elk to curb the spread of chronic wasting disease has a fundamental flaw, according to researchers in Illinois. That flaw, according to a paper published last fall in Read more
Scientists aren’t sure of success in fighting disease in deer, elk Chronic wasting disease rates appear to be falling in the most infected areas of Colorado and Wisconsin and rising in Wyoming and Nebraska, while the distribution of the disease is spreading in all four states. But that picture, drawn Read more
CSU will eye herd’s resistance to wasting malady HESPERUS – A band of researchers has an ambitious plan to study elk with genes that appear to make them less prone to a fatal brain infection called chronic wasting disease. The variant gene that may reduce susceptibility to the scourge of Read more
A leading researcher into wasting diseases such as mad cow says scientists may have long been looking at the wrong culprit HAMILTON – Bruce Chesebro is waiting for his monkeys to get chronic wasting disease. A few months ago, Chesebro and other researchers at Rocky Mountain Laboratories here injected a Read more
CWD UPDATE JANUARY 15, 2004 Without a doubt, the big news in the TSE world is the announcement of a positive BSE cow in the state of Washington. The presumptive positive was announced on December 23, 2003 and was confirmed by the world reference laboratory in Weybridge, United Kingdom on 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