PIERRE – South Dakota’s Department of Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) has collected 1900 elk and deer tissue samples this fall and winter in their ongoing testing for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). All samples are from the Black Hills and southwestern part of the state, except for 137 white-tailed deer Read more
NISKU, Alta.- Some deer producers are no longer submitting heads of dead animals for inspection for chronic wasting disease since the Canadian Food Inspection Agency refined its compensation program, says a farmer. “A lot of people are no longer willing to send in heads because of it,” said Jim Mercier Read more
MONONA , Wis. – Department of Natural Resources wildlife researchers are planning to conduct aerial deer counts in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) Eradication and Management Zones as soon as the weather cooperates. “We need five or six inches of snow on the ground to cover logs and stumps so Read more
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has banned four former Saskatchewan elk farmers from growing grain or raising livestock because their land may harbour chronic wasting disease organisms. They’re among 40 farms in Saskatchewan where elk tested positive for the fatal brain-wasting disease after a diseased elk was imported from South Read more
LINCOLN, Neb. – Officials with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission reported that two deer harvested in the Panhandle during the 2002 hunting season have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), but they expressed optimism at the low rate of infection. Bruce Morrison, a Commission biologist charged with monitoring Read more
Asked to help with the testing for chronic wasting disease, South Dakota big-game hunters have responded in unprecedented fashion, submitting 1,869 deer and elk heads to wildlife officials this fall and winter. Toss in 31 road kills from Rapid City, and that’s 1,900 specimens – more than the total sample Read more
JACKSBORO, Tenn. – While the panic over chronic wasting disease appears to be dying down, the testing to find out how widespread the disease is has just begun. Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has collected nearly 1,400 brain tissue samples from hunter-killed deer and sent them to the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Read more
Results from 5 wild whitetails could prompt new strategy by state. For the first time, chronic wasting disease has been found in wild deer killed outside the 411-square-mile eradication zone southwest of Madison, suggesting that the state may have to broaden its strategy against the disease. The Department of Natural Read more
CWD UPDATE JANUARY 10, 2003 Nebraska has received the results from 1,844 ELISA tests from the over 4,000 samples collected during the fall of 2002. Of these results, 1,842 were not positive with 2 additional positives. One of the positives was from Kimball County, within a mile of both Colorado Read more
Hunters and others interested in chronic wasting disease–a fatal disease of deer and elk that has yet to turn up in any Montana wild game, but that is present in nearby states and Canadian provinces–can offer comments at public meetings set to discuss the 2003 hunting seasons. During January, Montana Read more