SANTA FE – Two mule deer captured in the Organ Mountains as part of an ongoing research project near White Sands Missile Range have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal neurological disease that attacks the brains of infected deer and elk, the Department of Game and Fish Read more
U.S. Senator Herb Kohl included $1,750,000 in funding for Wisconsin’s Chronic Wasting Disease eradication efforts as part of the FY2006 Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill. Kohl is the ranking member of the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, which approved the bill this week, and identified CWD eradication as a Read more
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) – Boulder’s Open Space and Mountain Parks Department want to study chronic wasting disease in a radically new way, tracking infected deer instead of killing them. They are proposing capturing between 100 and 120 deer, testing them for the disease, tagging them with radio collars, then release Read more
ANNAPOLIS ― Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Wildlife and Heritage Service biologists announced today that there was no sign of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in white-tailed deer and sika deer harvested in the 2004-2005 muzzleloader and firearms deer hunting season. A total of 872 free-ranging deer (861 white-tailed deer Read more
The second year of testing wild deer turned up no cases of the disease. JEFFERSON CITY–For the second year in a row, laboratory tests found no Missouri deer with chronic wasting disease (CWD). The Missouri Department of Conservation says it plans to continue testing deer taken in this year’s hunting Read more
CWD UPDATE 60 June 3, 2005 Scientists from the National Institute of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratory report the discovery of a clue to what makes prions kill. Apparently the rough TSE prion must adhere to the cell membrane to be toxic to the animal it infects. Dr. Bruce Chesebro and Read more
WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK (AP) — Four more cases of chronic wasting disease have turned up in Wind Cave National Park. The fatal disease has been confirmed in three deer and one elk, park officials said. The park has been monitoring deer and elk herds for several years, and information Read more
People with good intentions are tempted each spring to remove newborn deer and elk from the wild. This year, as part of Montana’s effort to control the risk of spreading chronic wasting disease (CWD), taking a deer fawn or elk calf from the wild could prove to be fatal for Read more
CWD UPDATE May 20, 2005 The New York DEC reports a second free-roaming positive white-tailed deer from the culling operation near the positive captive facility in Oneida County. This positive was within a mile of the previous free-roaming positive. This was a three-year-old female. The sampling effort resulted in 290 Read more
Second Associated Captive Deer Herd Shows No Signs of CWD The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (DAM) today announced it has received more negative test results for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in three captive deer sampled at a herd associated with the deer herds confirmed with CWD Read more