CWD UPDATE January 12, 2005 The memorial service for Tom Thorne and Beth Williams was held in Laramie, Wyoming, on January 5. For a moving description of that service, go to www.wildlifedisease.org and follow the link. There is also information there for contributing to the Wildlife Disease Association for a Read more
CWD UPDATE January 3, 2005 The CWD world is still reeling from the loss of two very good people, Tom Thorne and Beth Williams. At this time, I do not see anyone who can step up and take Beth’s place in our profession nor do I see anyone with Tom’s Read more
CHEYENNE — Husband-and-wife wildlife veterinarians who were nationally prominent experts on chronic wasting disease and brucellosis were killed in a snowy-weather crash on U.S. 287 in northern Colorado, authorities confirmed Thursday. Tom Thorne and Beth Williams, both of rural Albany County, Wyo., died when their pickup truck hit a jackknifed Read more
CWD UPDATE December 17, 2004 The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission reports the confirmation of a case of CWD on the Cornhusker Wildlife Management Area, near the town of Grand Island in Hall County. The positive was a 2½-year-old whitetail buck. This is approximately 250 east of the Panhandle where Read more
Latest News & Updates on CWD Updated December 2, 2004 The Wyoming Game and Fish Department reports finding CWD for the first time on the east slope of the Big Horn Mountains in the north-central part of the state. One whitetail buck and one mule deer buck from the area Read more
CWD UPDATE November 9, 2004 Five additional red deer from the facility in Arizona that had the inconclusive CWD positive have been tested and the prion disease was not detected in the additional animals. Investigation into this occurrence is ongoing. Sixteen University of Alberta researchers with a combined total of Read more
HAMILTON (AP) — A scientific journal has named prion protein research at Rocky Mountain Laboratories as one of the most significant biomedical achievements of the past 10 years, the lab said Thursday. The research from 1994 was highlighted in the November edition of the journal Nature Medicine, lab spokesman Ken Read more
CWD UPDATE October 28, 2004 The story about the Arizona Red Deer incident that is going around the country needs clearing up. According to Jim DeVos of the Arizona Game and Fish Department, a producer had a red deer die in the spring of this year. The individual held the Read more
The Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre has released the expert scientific panel report titled “Chronic Wasting Disease in Canadian Wildlife: An Expert Opinion on the Epidemiology and Risks to Wild Deer”. It is available on their web site at http://wildlife1.usask.ca/ccwhc2003/Publications/CWD%20Expert%20Report%20Final%20-%2020040804.pdf (PDF). I recommend this report to everyone; it contains some Read more
Group aims to identify research needs for brain-wasting proteins U.S. officials have created a federal interagency working group to identify gaps in scientific knowledge about abnormal prion proteins, believed to cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and other diseases, according to a September 21 press release from the White House Office Read more