CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE (CWD) funds disappearing

CWD funds disappearing

Federal funds have underwritten much of our chronic wasting disease surveillance for nearly 10 years. As we’re all aware, the federal government is searching for ways to cut spending, and CWD prevention and surveillance has been targeted.

Under a cooperative agreement with the USDA, we have been able to reimburse producers up to $50 per sample for their veterinary costs to meet the testing requirement, and pay them half the costs to double-fence their property when necessary. That agreement ended July 31 and will not be renewed.

In addition, USDA has picked up the laboratory fees for surveillance testing. Although Congress has yet to approve USDA’s budget for FY 2012, which began Oct. 1, we have been informed that the CWD budget is likely to be cut to $1.925 million, down from $13.9 million. That has eliminated federal indemnity reimbursements for veterinary costs charged to owners for submitting tissues for CWD testing, funding for state wildlife surveillance, research at the National Wildlife Research Center – and paying lab fees for CWD tests after Dec 31. Testing to confirm positive screening tests would still be covered.

We have been talking with producer groups about how to proceed with the program in light of these changes. Stay tuned. In the meantime, if you have questions, contact Dr. Richard Bourie, 608-224-4886, richard.bourie@wi.gov.

http://datcp.wi.gov/Animals/





CDC BUDGET (SEE WASTE AT CDC)

http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=61B80CA8D8292D96E2CCB37F37557F9F





PRION TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY RESEARCH FUNDING U.S.A.


COMPARE TO USA PRION FUNDING 2011

"which includes the ___elimination___ of Prion activities ($5,473,000),"

All Other Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases CDC‘s FY 2012 request of $52,658,000 for all other emerging and zoonotic infectious disease activities is a decrease of $13,607,000 below the FY 2010 level, which includes the elimination of Prion activities ($5,473,000), a reduction for other cross-cutting infectious disease activities, and administrative savings. These funds support a range of critical emerging and zoonotic infectious disease programs such Lyme Disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Special Pathogens, as well as other activities described below.

http://www.cdc.gov/fmo/topic/Budget%20Information/appropriations_budget_form_pdf/FY2012_CDC_CJ_Final.pdf




Monday, June 27, 2011

Zoonotic Potential of CWD: Experimental Transmissions to Non-Human Primates

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/06/zoonotic-potential-of-cwd-experimental.html




Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Chronic Wasting Disease DOI: 10.1007/128_2011_159 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/05/chronic-wasting-disease-doi.html




Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Evidence for distinct CWD strains in experimental CWD in ferrets

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/09/evidence-for-distinct-cwd-strains-in.html




UPDATED DATA ON 2ND CWD STRAIN

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

CWD PRION CONGRESS SEPTEMBER 8-11 2010

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2010/09/cwd-prion-2010.html





Wednesday, October 12, 2011

White-tailed deer are susceptible to the agent of sheep scrapie by intracerebral inoculation

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/10/white-tailed-deer-are-susceptible-to.html



Tuesday, October 25, 2011

CWD Update 102 October 20, 2011

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/10/cwd-update-102-october-20-2011.html




Wednesday, August 24, 2011

There Is No Safe Dose of Prions

http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2011/08/there-is-no-safe-dose-of-prions.html




Wednesday, August 24, 2011

All Clinically-Relevant Blood Components Transmit Prion Disease following a Single Blood Transfusion: A Sheep Model of vCJD

http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2011/08/all-clinically-relevant-blood.html





Editorial: The European Response to BSE: A Success Story

EFSA Journal 2011; 9(9):e991 [3 pp.]. doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2011.e991 Author Herbert Budka, Member and Vice-Chair of EFSA's Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ)Contact

editor-in-chief.efsajournal@efsa.europa.eu


Type: Editorial Published: 02 September 2011 Affiliation: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Parma, Italy Article

snip...

Moreover, transmission experiments to non-human primates suggest that some TSE agents in addition to Classical BSE prions in cattle (namely L-type Atypical BSE, Classical BSE in sheep, transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) and chronic wasting disease (CWD) agents) might have zoonotic potential.

snip...


http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/e991.htm?emt=1




http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/e991.pdf




see full text and more here ;



Monday, October 10, 2011

EFSA Journal 2011 The European Response to BSE: A Success Story

http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2011/10/efsa-journal-2011-european-response-to.html





Thursday, August 4, 2011

Terry Singeltary Sr. on the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Public Health Crisis, Date aired: 27 Jun 2011

http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2011/08/terry-singeltary-sr-on-creutzfeldt.html





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