Lansing — Despite an already understaffed Law Enforcement Division, the Michigan DNR says it plans to begin an audit of the state’s domestic deer and elk farm operations within the next couple weeks. The effort is in compliance with Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s executive order of April 15, which transferred authority Read more
Prion proteins can be found in the muscles of infected sheep, reports a new study in the June issue of Nature Medicine. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans might result from consumption of animal products contaminated with prions. Olivier Andréoletti and his colleagues found that the prion protein PrPSc accumulates in Read more
Last fall, brain and lymph node tissue samples from hunter harvested white-tailed deer in Delaware were submitted to the University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine’s New Bolton Center for Chronic Wasting Disease testing. Three hundred random samples were collected in Delaware, 100 from each county. Final test results just Read more
State and federal authorities have destroyed approximately 30 wild white-tailed deer that have been trapped for more than a year inside a farmed elk facility in central North Dakota’s Sheridan County. The deer were originally enclosed when a fence was erected to contain farmed elk. The action was carried out Read more
MADISON — A whitetail deer that died on a Racine County farm has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, State Veterinarian Dr. Robert Ehlenfeldt announced today. The National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, reported the test results Friday, May 21. According to the farm’s records on file with the Read more
OLYMPIA-Three years of testing across Washington state have failed to turn up any deer or elk with chronic wasting disease (CWD), the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has announced. Brain tissue samples from 2,511 animals were collected over the three-year period, with 672 of those taken during 2003 Read more
MADISON – With funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers will investigate what happens if infectious prion proteins – considered the cause of chronic wasting disease and mad cow disease – enter wastewater treatment plants. Joining UW-Madison scientists Judd Aiken and Joel Pedersen Read more
AUGUSTA, Maine – Maine wild deer herds show no signs of Chronic Wasting Disease. In a cooperative venture, biologists from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and animal health officials from the Maine Department of Agriculture and U. S. Department of Agriculture sampled 810 brain tissues from deer Read more
The second year of testing turned up no cases of the disease in Missouri. 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 Read more
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is asking people to refrain from picking up fawns that appear to be abandoned this spring. Because of the risk of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), the DNR is imposing a two-year moratorium on raising and releasing deer back into the wild. All fawns Read more