HERCULES, CA — December 4, 2002 — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (AMEX: BIO and BIO.B), a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research products and clinical diagnostics, announced today that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has revised the company’s existing veterinary biological permit for its rapid test used Read more
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. — The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is allowing hunters to bring deer and elk hunted out of state back into Illinois so long as the carcasses are brought to a licensed meat processor or licensed taxidermist within 72 hours of entry into the state. The rule, effective Read more
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Game Commission employees, joined by veterinarians and laboratory technicians from the state and U.S. Departments of Agriculture, today began collecting tissue samples from 500 randomly selected hunter-killed deer throughout the Commonwealth to test for chronic wasting disease (CWD). “Currently, there are no confirmed or suspected cases of Read more
A wild deer was discovered with chronic wasting disease for the first time outside a 411-square-mile zone west of Madison, a newspaper reported. A 3-year-old buck shot in Grant County in southwestern Wisconsin during the nine-day hunting season that ended Sunday tested positive for the fatal disease, the Milwaukee Journal Read more
MADISON – A preliminary call-in tally of registration stations across the state shows hunters taking 261,093 deer during the regular nine-day gun deer hunt that closed Sunday. That figure is about 10 percent lower than the similar phone tally of 291,563 from Wisconsin’s 2001season, and about 20 percent lower than Read more
FITCHBURG – Hunters are reminded that the gun deer season continues in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) zones of south central Wisconsin. The gun season runs through Jan.31 in the CWD Intensive Harvest Zone of western Dane – eastern Iowa Counties and a small portion of southern Sauk County. Gun Read more
Test results from 103 wild deer killed so far near an Aitkin County farm show no evidence of chronic wasting disease, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said Tuesday. At least eight more deer from that 9-square-mile area remain to be tested for the incurable ailment that strikes deer and Read more
DES MOINES – Iowa DNR wildlife biologists will be collecting tissue samples from deer harvested during the first two days of the first shotgun season looking for the presence of chronic wasting disease. The DNR has check stations in the northeast Iowa counties of Allamakee, Clayton, Dubuque and Jackson. Hunter Read more
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials estimate they collected about 4,700 samples for Chronic Wasting Disease tests during the firearms deer season, which opened Nov. 9. Last week, after most firearms seasons ended in northern Minnesota, the DNR had collected about 4,000 samples. An additional 1,000 samples were to be Read more
So far this hunting season, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has collected 200 deer tissue specimens to be tested for chronic wasting disease. The disease is fatal to deer but has not turned up in Florida, and authorities are taking steps to make sure it doesn’t. The Read more