chronic wasting disease

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Have you all heard of the mad elk disease that is spreading in the west?

First in Colorado, and now in Wisconsin. A herd of cows have been

quarentined because of it. Apparently some of the cows have come down with

it. They are planning on destroying a herd of 1200 domestic elk in

Wisconsin because of the disease. I wish they would come up with some way

to test to see if they animals actually have the disease before they kill

it. From what I have heard they can only test if they have it after the

animal is dead. I know the disease make swiss cheese out of the brains.

Just one more reason to be vegen. The disease CAN be passed onto humans.

 

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Issue Date

04/04/2002

 

North American Hunting Club Weekly News

 

 

Update: CWD Confirmed In Additional Wisconsin Deer

Wisconsin wildlife officials have announced that two additional free-ranging

deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the Mt. Horeb

area of Dane County. This brings the number of known CWD cases in the area

to five. The results are the first to be returned from laboratory analysis

of a planned 500 deer sample that’s now being collected.

Wildlife and veterinary experts won’t be making any decisions on how to

proceed in managing CWD until all sample tests are completed and analyzed.

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials couldn’t say for sure

when the rest of the sample results would be available.

The state Department of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection has banned

deer and elk imports from other states unless they come from herds that have

been CWD-free for at least five years. Currently, no herd in the United

States has been tested long enough to meet that standard.

In related news, test results on 90 deer recently collected in southwestern

South Dakota resulted in no additional findings of CWD.

The deer were collected for testing in early March after some of the deer

taken by Nebraska Game and Parks personnel in northwestern Nebraska tested

positive for the disease. The follow-up testing in South Dakota was done to

determine if CWD existed in free-roaming deer herds in southern Fall River

County.

Colorado Gov. Bill Owens recently announced that CWD has spread across the

Continental Divide to the state’s Western Slope.

Owens says that a CWD-infected deer was found on a ranch near Hayden,

Colorado.

CWD had previously been confined mostly to northeastern Colorado. The

Continental Divide was thought to be a natural barrier to the spread of the

disease.

The infected deer was found on the Motherwell Ranch--which was put under

quarantine by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Colorado Division of

Wildlife officials plan to kill the 39 captive elk there and also plan to

kill about 300 wild deer within five miles of the ranch to determine whether

the disease has spread.

Finally in Louisiana, agriculture officials are considering a ban on the

importation of deer and elk to protect the state’s deer population from CWD.

Texas and Arkansas have already strengthened their deer importation laws, as

has Michigan.

There’s no evidence to suggest that Louisiana’s deer population is infected

with CWD.

Watch for more on the Wisconsin CWD situation in the June/July 2002, issue

of North American Hunter.