The spread of chronic wasting disease toward Yellowstone’s famed game herds alarms wildlife lovers, but two top researchers think biologists will discover a powerful ally in an old frontier villain. The wolf. Wildlife managers have never controlled a major outbreak of chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurologic malady of deer Read more
Illinois has nine more confirmed cases of a fatal deer disease first discovered in the state last fall near Roscoe, wildlife officials announced Friday. The new cases were found among 1,100 hunter-harvested deer tested for chronic wasting disease during the first session of the firearm season last month. The latest Read more
LARAMIE — Statewide surveillance to monitor chronic wasting disease (CWD) is finished, thanks to new testing procedures that allowed the Game and Fish Department to analyze more than twice the number of samples in half the time. The ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay) test, which certified in 2002, allowed G&F Read more
Madison, Wis. – A second wild white-tailed deer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Rock County. The female deer was harvested by a hunter five miles north of the county’s 25-square mile disease eradication zone (DEZ). “Finding a CWD-positive deer outside of the Rock County DEZ is Read more
LONDON, England (AP) — The British government reported on Wednesday a patient died of the human form of mad cow disease after a blood transfusion from an infected donor — the first time such a connection has been reported. Health Secretary John Reid told Parliament it was not possible to Read more
SALT LAKE CITY — Chronic wasting disease in deer in Utah appears to be centered in the LaSal Mountains east of Moab and Diamond Mountain north of Vernal, the Division of Wildlife Resources announced Dec. 15. Final results of an extensive sampling effort by the DWR during this year’s deer Read more
In a test of bovine proportions, the small crane hoists a one-thousand-pound cow and sets it neatly into a massive stainless steel tank. Two more cows follow, a massive lid is secured, chemicals and water are added, boilers are revved up, and the cows – hoofs, hide, bones and all Read more
Editor’s Note: this is the last of eight bi-weekly columns in which the Department of Natural Resources Secretary will try to answer some of the many questions and concerns related to Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Wisconsin. I would like to end this series on an optimistic and hopeful note. Read more
Editor’s Note: this is the seventh of eight biweekly columns in which the Department of Natural Resources Secretary will try to answer some of the many questions and concerns related to Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Wisconsin. “To say we’ve been on a steep learning curve with Chronic Wasting Disease Read more
As of December 10, 2003, we have found 14 confirmed cases of CWD positive deer from the 2003 hunting season. These positives cases represent a total of 3709 samples that have been tested to date. We are estimating that are about 1000 samples that have yet to be tested. Below Read more