HARRISBURG — Samples taken from more than 500 hunter-killed Pennsylvania white-tailed deer during the 2002 two-week concurrent rifle deer season have all tested negative for chronic wasting disease, according to representatives of the Pennsylvania Game Commission and state Department of Agriculture. These tests were conducted by the Department of Agriculture’s Read more
MADISON – Chronic wasting disease was only one of many reasons gun deer hunters chose to not hunt in 2002 according to a recently completed survey by the Department of Natural resources in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Survey Center. The survey polled 2,100 gun deer hunters from all Read more
Test results fuel optimism deer disease hasn’t spread 4 more deer test positive near illness’ focal point With more than 80% of the planned deer tests completed outside a 10-county southwestern Wisconsin region, no wild deer in the rest of the state has shown signs of chronic wasting disease, state Read more
CWD UPDATE March 7, 2003 The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission reports that all results from samples collected during the 2002 deer season have been returned. A total of 4,200 samples were submitted; of these, 4,162 did not test positive, 12 tested positive and 26 were not testable due to Read more
No positives have been found in more than 5,000 Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) tests run on brain-stem samples collected from Minnesota’s wild deer during the fall of 2002, the Department of Natural Resources announced today. The University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has completed testing on 4,462 samples collected at Read more
PIERRE – State Game, Fish and Parks officials say all results for tissue samples submitted for chronic wasting disease testing have been returned and no additional samples tested positive. “A total of 1,950 samples were collected since July 1, 2002,” said Big Game Biologist Steve Griffin of Rapid City. “Out Read more
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Scientists reported on Wednesday that it may one day be possible to fight fatal brain-wasting disorders–such as those caused by eating mad-cow contaminated meat–using antibodies directed at prions, the proteins which cause the disease. UK researchers discovered that these antibodies increased survival in mice infected Read more
Samples taken from North Dakota deer and elk during the 2002 hunting season have tested negative for chronic wasting disease, according to Jacquie Gerads, wildlife disease biologist for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Gerads received the good news Monday from Dr. Beth Williams of the Wyoming State Veterinary Read more
Blacksburg, Va., March 4, 2003 — Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a fatal brain disease of white-tailed deer and elk, threatens wildlife management throughout the United States. Agencies nationwide are working to control the disease. Now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded Virginia Tech’s Conservation Management Institute (CMI) a Read more
MADISON — Extended hunting season and reduced white-tailed deer population goals in diseased areas are tools state wildlife managers are proposing to help manage chronic wasting disease under proposed rules that are the topic of a series of hearings scheduled across the state March 17-19. “Lowering the deer population in Read more