The Wisconsin Medical Society on Thursday joined the growing list of organizations offering recommendations on how to deal with chronic wasting disease by urging, among other things, that the state provide at least one Dumpster in every county for the disposal of deer carcasses. The society also recommended that all Read more
Madison – More evidence is necessary before we will know if chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a human health threat, according to a Wisconsin Medical Society report released today. (The task force report can be found here on www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org). “There is currently no scientific or epidemiological evidence to suggest that Read more
The chance of a human getting CWD from a deer is very tiny and the public should work with game management officials in the effort to control the disease, a University of Wisconsin doctor said Wednesday. About 100 people, including doctors, nurses, medical students and journalists gathered at the Lake Read more
State officials said Wednesday they recently learned that several deer escaped in March from a northern Walworth County deer farm that is known to have harbored at least one deer with chronic wasting disease. The DNR has dispatched wardens to a game farm owned by James Hirschboeck of the Town Read more
Manitoba- Chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological disorder similar to mad cow disease, has been found in a wild deer in an area previously thought free of it, officials in the Canadian Prairie province of Saskatchewan said on Thursday. Since 1990, three cases of the disease had been found in Read more
Two elk killed by hunters in Middle Park on Oct. 12 have tested positive for chronic wasting disease. One was a cow elk taken by a hunter about five miles northeast of Kremmling the opening morning of the first rifle season. The second was a bull killed about seven miles Read more
Saskatchewan Environment has received confirmation of another case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in wild deer. The latest positive sample was found in a two-year-old mule deer buck taken this fall near Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park, north of Swift Current. The sample was tested at the Canadian Co-operative Wildlife Health Read more
A judge issued a restraining order Tuesday that prevents a company in southeastern Minnesota from receiving thousands of deer carcasses — possibly infected with chronic wasting disease — from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The order by Houston County District Judge Robert Benson at least temporarily halts a plan Read more
Deer and elk hunters can call a special hot line or use the DOW Web site to retrieve the results of the CWD test of their animals. Hunters who have had their deer or elk tested for chronic wasting disease (CWD) and do not receive a call from the Colorado Read more
The Minnesota Board of Animal Health today announced that the final group of nine elk from an Aitkin County elk herd has tested negative for Chronic Wasting Disease. These findings mean all 48 elk from the Aitkin County farm have tested negative. The Aitkin County herd has been held under Read more