Deer hunters submitted about 3,500 samples for chronic wasting disease tests during the first weekend of Minnesota’s firearms deer season, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The DNR intends to collect between 5,000 and 6,000 total samples at selected registration stations across the state as part of an Read more
In a call to State public health and agriculture officials throughout the U.S. today, FDA announced that the Agency will not permit material from Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)-positive animals, or animals at high risk for CWD, to be used as an ingredient in feed for any animal species. Animals considered Read more
AUSTIN, Texas – Confident that sufficient safeguards are in place to minimize the risk of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) entering the state, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission voted here Thursday, Nov. 7, to rescind its eight-month-long ban on the importation of white-tailed deer. The board also adopted new rules Read more
MADISON – Starting Friday, Nov. 15, citizens and hunters will be able to check on the progress Wisconsin wildlife and health officials are making testing the thousands of samples hunters have donated from deer shot across the state to be tested for chronic wasting disease. The will publish the testing Read more
CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE UPDATE November 12, 2002 Chronic Wasting Disease has been confirmed in a young female white-tail deer from near the town of Roscoe in Winnebago County, Illinois. The animal was shot because it exhibited the clinical signs of CWD and tests run by the NVSL were positive for Read more
A team of researchers at Colorado State University has been approved for a seven-year, $8.4 million grant to study chronic wasting disease, a fatal brain ailment of deer and elk that has spread across North America’s midsection in recent years. Scientists at the university’s Prion Research Laboratory in Fort Collins Read more
FRANKFORT, Ky.- Kentucky has banned the importation of deer and other members of its animal family in an attempt to stave off the spread of a disease that has threatened the valuable industry. The order signed Tuesday by Gov. Paul Patton bans the import and export of all deer, elk, Read more
Chronic Wasting Disease – Alberta Implications January 11, 2003 – January 11, 2003 Nisku, Alberta Canada A conference for hunters, Conservation Officers, Wildlife Biologists, Captive Cervid Producers, Veterinarians, and others who are interested. Conference Synopsis: The objective of this one-day conference is to bring sound scientific information about chronic wasting Read more
MADISON–A legislative committee voted unanimously Thursday to extend the state’s ban on baiting and feeding deer through at least April 1, maintaining a power the Department of Natural Resources says is an invaluable tool in fighting chronic wasting disease. Several feed providers begged the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules to Read more
Increased funding of two surveillance programmes. New government funding of $1.086 million has been allocated over the next two years to existing surveillance programmes for scrapie in goats and sheep, and chronic wasting disease of deer. Derek Belton, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) Director of Animal Biosecurity says that Read more