CWD Update 86 May 3, 2007 State and Provincial Updates Kansas: Lloyd Fox, Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks provides the following: Kansas Dept. Wildlife and Parks has collected 10,737 samples for CWD testing since 1996. The only known positive cases of CWD in Kansas occurred in November 2001 at Read more
CWD Update 85 March 24, 2007 State and Provincial Updates Ontario: John Dungavell, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, provides the following: Since 2002, Ontario has conducted CWD surveillance of hunter-harvested deer. The program has tested more than 3500 deer with all negative results to date. Ontario will continue to conduct Read more
CWD Update 84 January 27, 2007 State and Provincial Updates Alberta: Alberta is continuing testing for the provincial chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance program for 2006-07. One additional case of CWD in wild deer was confirmed on January 2. This brings the total to 17 cases in wild deer in Read more
CWD Update 82 November 20, 2006 State Updates New York: John Major, New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), provides the following: For 2006, Chronic Wasting Disease regulations in New York have been updated in response to the finding of the disease in a moose in Colorado and deer in Read more
CWD UPDATE 81 November 14, 2006 USDA-APHIS-Veterinary Services has published a request for comments on the three petitions received from the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, the U. S. Animal Health Association, and the National Assembly of State Animal Health Officials protesting portions of their rule on the interstate Read more
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2006–The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is soliciting comments on three petitions requesting that APHIS reconsider provisions and delay a recent final rule establishing a herd certification program and interstate movement restrictions for cervids to control the spread of chronic wasting disease Read more
The final rule on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Herd Certification Program and Interstate Movement of Farmed or Captive Deer, Elk, and Moose was published in the Federal Register by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service (APHIS) on July 21, 2006 (SCWDS BRIEFS, Vol. 22, No. Read more
Chronic wasting disease for the first time has been found in the heart muscle of white-tailed deer and elk, according to researchers in the University of Wyoming’s College of Agriculture. The finding is important to wildlife managers, hunters and scientists because the cardiac muscle — which comprises meat — of Read more
FORT COLLINS – New Colorado State University-led research shows for the first time that chronic wasting disease may spread through saliva and blood of infected deer, which poses new possibilities that the disease may spread by blood-sucking insects or social contact between animals. The study also reinforces that no tissue Read more
CWD UPDATE 80 October 6, 2006 A recent article in Science reported on the infectivity of saliva and blood from CWD infected animals. The article is available here. The Journal of Infectious Diseases published an article reporting on a study of Colorado hunters in a 7 county area and the Read more