News Release
For immediate release: Friday, May 25, 2012
Contact: Malissa Fritz, BAH Communications Director, 651-201-6830
Chronic Wasting Disease found in a farmed red deer from Ramsey County
Mandatory surveillance program leads to detection of the disease
St. Paul, Minn – The Minnesota Board of Animal Health today announced that
a farmed red deer from a Ramsey County herd tested positive for Chronic Wasting
Disease (CWD).
The brain stem from a two-year-old female red deer was submitted for
testing at the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, where
preliminary results were positive for CWD. The National Veterinary Services
Laboratory today confirmed the positive test. The Board of Animal Health has
placed the herd under quarantine and is working with the owners to determine the
herd’s future.
The red deer died on the farm on May 10. The animal was tested for the
disease as part of Minnesota’s mandatory CWD surveillance program, which has
been in place since 2003. Farmed cervidae producers in Minnesota must CWD test
all deer and elk over 16 months of age that die or are slaughtered.
This herd has been registered with the Board of Animal Health since 2000.
“This herd is an example of farmers who take great care in the management of
their animals,” said Dr. Paul Anderson, assistant director of the Board of
Animal Health. “In their 12 years of herd registration with the Board, this
producer has met all of the requirements.”
The Board of Animal Health is coordinating with the Minnesota Department of
Natural Resources (DNR). The DNR is currently evaluating the situation and will
likely test wild white-tailed deer in the area this fall.
CWD is a fatal brain and nervous system disease found in cervidae in
certain parts of North America. The disease is caused by an abnormally shaped
protein called a prion, which can damage brain and nerve tissue. Infected
animals may show signs of the disease including progressive loss of body weight,
behavioral changes, staggering, increased water consumption and drooling. In
later stages of the disease, animals become emaciated (thus “wasting” disease).
According to state health officials and the federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, there is no evidence that CWD can be transmitted to
humans.
For more information on CWD and the Board of Animal Health, visit
www.bah.state.mn.us.
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Chronic wasting disease found in a red deer from North Oaks farm herd
By Dennis Lien
Posted: 05/25/2012 12:01:00 AM CDT
May 26, 2012 1:45 AM GMTUpdated: 05/25/2012 08:45:21 PM CDT
A farmed red deer from a large northern Ramsey County herd has tested
positive for chronic wasting disease.
The Minnesota Board of Animal Health said the 2-year-old female deer died
on the farm May 10, and a required examination of its brain stem tested positive
for the fatal brain and nervous system disease affecting elk and deer.
The 500-head North Oaks herd remains under quarantine, and officials are
trying to figure out how the disease got there and what to do with the rest of
the red deer, a large species native to Europe and Asia.
It marks the fifth case of farmed cervids testing positive in Minnesota for
chronic wasting disease, according to Dr. Paul Anderson, a board veterinarian.
Three were elk; the fourth, a white-tailed deer.
In those instances, including the most recent one in Olmsted County in
2009, all other herd members were slaughtered and tested for the disease.
"It's way too early to tell (in this case),'' said Anderson, noting the
investigation will take weeks.
"The one thing I will say, this particular operation has had absolutely
perfect surveillance for CWD,'' he added. "They have never missed an animal they
needed to test, and all the animals have tested negative. This farm is one of
the best-run in the state, and it's going to take some work to see if we can
figure out where this came from.''
A man answering a telephone number listed at northoaksfarms.com declined to
comment.
"I would refer you to the Board of Animal Health. We're working closely
with them. Goodbye,'' he said and hung up.
That herd of red deer has been registered with the Board of Animal Health
since 2000.
Chronic wasting disease, which is found in elk and deer in parts of North
America, is caused by an abnormally shaped protein called a prion, which can
damage brain and nerve tissue. Infected animals show progressive loss of body
weight with accompanying behavioral changes, including staggering, drinking
large amounts of water, excessive urinating and drooling.
There is no evidence the disease can be transmitted to humans or other
animals such as cattle or sheep, according to federal and state health experts.
Authorities believe it most likely is transmitted by animal-to-animal contact or
exposure to contaminated habitat.
The disease can have a long incubation period, making it difficult to
figure out how animals became infected.
In the North Oaks case, the brain stem from the red deer was submitted to
the University of Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, where preliminary
results were positive. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Veterinary
Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, confirmed the positive test Friday, May 25.
The deer was tested as part of the state's mandatory CWD surveillance
program.
Since 2003, Minnesota has required registration and chronic wasting disease
surveillance programs for farmed cervid herds. When animals 16 months or older
die or are slaughtered, herd owners must submit brain samples for testing.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources plans to meet with the board
soon and likely will test wild white-tailed deer in the area.
"We haven't had any reports of sick deer in the area,'' said Lou
Cornicelli, DNR wildlife research manager.
Although the other farmed herds have been destroyed, Anderson said
decisions are made on a case-by-case basis.
"Whenever something like this happens, we do what is best for the herd and
figure out a way to make sure this disease is eradicated,'' Anderson said.
Dennis Lien can be reached at 651-228-5588.
CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE UPDATE September 6, 2002
Minnesota has announced the finding of CWD in a captive elk in Aitkin
County. The animal was a five-year-old male. It had been purchased from a
captive facility in Stearns County in August of 2000. The herd where the elk was
found has been placed under quarantine as has two additional facilities where
the infected elk had resided prior to it coming to the farm in Aitkin County.
Minnesota DNR officials will test wild deer in the area to determine if there is
any sign of CWD in the free-ranging population. This is the first case of CWD in
either captive or freeranging cervids in Minnesota. Several more states have
passed bans on the importation of deer and elk carcasses from states where CWD
has been found in wild animals. Previously the states of Colorado, Illinois and
Iowa and the province of Manitoba had passed such bans. The states of Vermont,
Oregon and Missouri have enacted similar bans. Numerous states have issue
voluntary advisories to their out-of-state hunters encouraging them not to bring
the carcass or carcass parts of deer and elk into their state. The bans do
permit the importation of boned out meat, hides or cape with no meat attached,
clean skull cap with antler attached, finished taxidermy heads or the ivories of
elk. The state of Georgia has recently banned the importation of live cervids
into that state also. Some citizens of Colorado have formed a new political
action group called Colorado Wildlife Defense (just happens that the acronym is
CWD). The stated goal of this group are; Elimination of big game diseases,
especially CWD; promotion of healthy wildlife habitat; promotion of
scientifically sound wildlife research; promotion of a discussion of the ethics
of hunting and wildlife management; education of the hunting and non hunting
public. Their action plan calls for; requiring double fencing of all game farms
at owners expense; all game farmers provide annual proof of bonding; prohibit
new licenses for deer and elk farms; prohibit expansion in acreage of existing
game farms; prohibit the transfer of game farm licenses; prohibit charging for
hunting behind high wire; prohibit blocking of traditional migratory paths by
high fences; requiring game farms to maintain environmental controls and
prohibit the escape of contaminated water or soil; requiring immediate reporting
of missing deer or elk from game farms; and requiring all game farm deer and elk
to be tested for brucellosis and TB. Wisconsin has announced that 7 more
free-ranging deer have tested positive for CWD. They have expanded their
eradication zone by an additional 15 square miles to cover these findings. The
total number of free-ranging CWD positive in Wisconsin is now 31 white-tail
deer.
In 2000, a elk farmer in Wisconsin received elk from a CWD exposed herd in
Colorado. At that time, the farmer advised the Wisconsin Department of
Agriculture that both animals from the exposed herd in Colorado were dead. He
has now advised Wisconsin Ag. that he was mistaken and that one of the animals
is still alive in his herd. The second draft of the implementation documents for
the National CWD Plan was distributed to committee members and others on Friday,
August 30. The final documents are due to APHIS and USFWS on Friday, September
13. The herd of captive elk in Oklahoma that had been exposed to CWD will be
destroyed this week. This herd had an elk test positive for CWD in 1997 but the
depopulation of the herd was not agreed to by the owners and federal
representatives until this week. Since the discovery of CWD in the herd, the
remaining animals have been under quarantine, however, in the meantime the herd
has dropped from 150 animals to 74. Due to a lack of communication, not all of
the 76 animals that died in the interim were tested for CWD. All remaining
animals will be tested but the true degree of infection rate of the herd will
never be known.
The owners of the facility will not be permitted to restock the area with
cervids for a period of five years. A New York based organization, BioTech
Research Fund I LLC has committed a $1 million line of credit to fund
commercialization of tests for brain-wasting disorders and production of various
vaccines to Gene-Thera of Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Gene-Thera has spent three
years developing new ways not only to diagnose CWD, but create vaccines for mad
cow disease, E. coli contaminants and foot-and-mouth disease. Its tests for CWD
have been successful in more than 100 samples from Colorado and Wisconsin
according to company officials. Gene-Thera plans to license and market some o
fits disease test kits by the end of the year, then begin volume distribution by
mid-2003. The abstracts of the presentations from the CWD Conference in Denver
August 6 and 7 have been posted on the Colorado Division of Wildlife web site.
You will need adobe acrobat reader to read them.
Minnesota: Second case in a game farmed elk discovered in Stearns Co.
This is a trace forward from the previously affected game farm in Aitkins
Co. An additional game farm in Benton Co is under quarantine.
snip...
Supporting Documents: Colorado: CWD-Exposed Elk Used in 1990 Study-
Wildlife officials call W. Slope move a mistake Date: January 17, 2003 Source:
Denver Post Contacts: Theo Stein Environment Writer
The Colorado Division of Wildlife knowingly used a herd of captive elk
exposed to chronic wasting disease in a grazing study on the Western Slope in
January 1990, possibly introducing the disease to the elk-rich area. "It was a
bad call," said Jeff Ver Steeg, the division's top game manager. "I can't deny
it." About 150 wild elk were allowed to graze in the same pens near Maybell
after the research herd was removed and may have picked up the abnormal protein
that causes the disease from the feces and urine left by the captive elk. While
the Division of Wildlife has expressed concern before that its animals might
have helped spread CWD, this is the first time the agency has acknowledged it
knowingly moved elk exposed to CWD deep into an area where the disease was not
known to already exist. Studies that could help determine the source of CWD on
the Western Slope are incomplete, and officials say what data that do exist are
so new and so spotty they may not provide all the answers. So far, it appears
that less than 1 percent of deer and elk in the area are infected, compared with
as much as 15 to 20 percent in hotspots in northeastern Colorado. But as
wildlife officials grapple with CWD's appearance in northwestern Colorado,
officials now admit the decision to continue the grazing study over the
objections of some biologists was an error. At the time, biologists wanted to
see whether elk grazing on winter range depleted forage that ranchers wanted for
fattening cattle in spring. "I think in hindsight a lot of good people probably
did some dumb things, myself included," said Bruce Gill, a retired wildlife
manager who oversaw research efforts and remembers the debate over the project.
"Had we known CWD would explode into such a potentially volatile ecologic and
economic issue, we wouldn't have done it." Elk ranchers, who have been blamed
for exporting the disease from its stronghold on the Colorado and Wyoming plains
to seven states and two Canadian provinces, say the agency's belated disclosure
smacks of a coverup. "It's pure negligence," said Jerry Perkins, a Delta banker
and rancher who is now demanding a legislative inquiry. "If I'd have moved
animals I knew to be infected around like that, I'd be in jail." Grand Junction
veterinarian and sportsman Dick Steele said he faults the agency for not
disclosing information about CWD-exposed research animals before October, when
information was posted on the Division of Wildlife website. "This went way
beyond poor judgment," he said. "My main concern is that this has been hidden
for the last 12 years. It would have been real important to our decision-making
process on how to deal with CWD." While the Maybell information is new, Perkins
and other ranchers have long suspected Division of Wildlife research facilities
near Meeker and Kremmling, which temporarily housed mule deer kept in heavily
infected pens at the Fort Collins facility, have leaked CWD to the wild. Fear of
an outbreak led the agency to sample 450 deer around the Meeker and Kremmling
facilities. None tested positive, but the sample size was only large enough to
detect cases if the infection rate was greater than 1 percent. This fall, tests
on 23,000 deer and elk submitted by hunters statewide have revealed 48 CWD cases
north of Interstate 70 and west of the Continental Divide. Biologists believe
the infection rate in that area, which includes the Maybell, Meeker and
Kremmling sites, is still well below 1 percent. But CWD has never been contained
in a wild population, so experts fear the problem will grow worse.
The Division of Wildlife says it will be months before a statistical
analysis of the fall's sampling results can be completed, an exercise that may
shed light on the disease's origin on the Western Slope. "We're just not going
to speculate at this point," said Ver Steeg of the possible Maybell connection.
"This is one possibility, but certainly not the only possibility." Some
biologists think a defunct elk ranch near Pagoda, which had dozens of
unexplained deaths in the mid-'90s, is another, a suggestion Perkins rejects.
"It may be inconclusive to them," said Perkins. "It isn't inconclusive to
us."
To date, 19 CWD-positive
animals have been found on six Wisconsin farms. All have been white-tailed deer
except for one elk imported from a Minnesota herd later found to be infected.
More than 8,000 farm-raised deer and elk have been tested in Wisconsin, and
about 540 herds are enrolled in the CWD monitoring program.
Subject: CWD disease detected on Lac qui Parle County cervid farm
southwestern Minnesota (2006-03-15) Date: March 15, 2006 at 12:36 pm PST
Chronic wasting disease detected on Lac qui Parle County cervid farm
(2006-03-15) The Board of Animal Health announced today that chronic wasting
disease (CWD) has been detected in one domestic white-tailed deer on a cervid
farm in Lac qui Parle County, which is located in southwestern Minnesota.
Immediately, DNR officials will conduct a local deer survey to determine
the number of wild deer in the area. It is expected that not many deer will be
found because the area is highly agricultural, with little deer habitat
surrounding the farm. DNR will conduct opportunistic sampling of deer, like road
kills, in the immediate area now and will conduct intensive hunter-harvested
surveillance during the 2006 firearm deer season.
Although this positive animal is a captive deer, DNR has conducted
surveillance for CWD in wild deer in the area. The farm is located near the
northern boundary of deer permit area 447, where wild deer surveillance for CWD
last occurred in 2003.
Lou Cornicelli, DNR big game program coordinator, said, "In 2003, we
conducted wild deer CWD surveillance in adjoining permit areas 433, 446 and 447.
In total, we collected 392 samples from those permit areas during the regular
firearm deer season and CWD was not detected."
The sampling of wild deer was designed statistically to have a 95 percent
confidence of detecting a 1 percent infection rate, according to Mike DonCarlos,
DNR wildlife programs manager.
"This situation is very similar to the positive elk farm discovered in
Stearns County in 2003, which followed the first discovery of CWD in an Aitkin
County elk farm," DonCarlos said. “The DNR response will be similar to the
Stearns County action and will include an initial assessment of wild deer
populations in the area and development of a surveillance program for next
fall."
From 2002 to 2004, DNR staff collected nearly 28,000 CWD samples statewide
and no disease found in the wild herd.
"The intensive surveillance conducted in 2003 indicated CWD was not present
in wild deer," Cornicelli said. “In addition, all indications are that this
positive captive deer has not contacted any wild deer, but we will conduct
additional surveillance this fall to be sure."
Subject: CWD disease detected on Lac qui Parle County cervid farm
southwestern Minnesota (2006-03-15) Date: March 15, 2006 at 12:36 pm PST Chronic
wasting disease detected on Lac qui Parle County cervid farm (2006-03-15) The
Board of Animal Health announced today that chronic wasting disease (CWD) has
been detected in one domestic white-tailed deer on a cervid farm in Lac qui
Parle County, which is located in southwestern Minnesota.
Immediately, DNR officials will conduct a local deer survey to determine
the number of wild deer in the area. It is expected that not many deer will be
found because the area is highly agricultural, with little deer habitat
surrounding the farm. DNR will conduct opportunistic sampling of deer, like road
kills, in the immediate area now and will conduct intensive hunter-harvested
surveillance during the 2006 firearm deer season.
Although this positive animal is a captive deer, DNR has conducted
surveillance for CWD in wild deer in the area. The farm is located near the
northern boundary of deer permit area 447, where wild deer surveillance for CWD
last occurred in 2003.
Lou Cornicelli, DNR big game program coordinator, said, "In 2003, we
conducted wild deer CWD surveillance in adjoining permit areas 433, 446 and 447.
In total, we collected 392 samples from those permit areas during the regular
firearm deer season and CWD was not detected."
The sampling of wild deer was designed statistically to have a 95 percent
confidence of detecting a 1 percent infection rate, according to Mike DonCarlos,
DNR wildlife programs manager.
"This situation is very similar to the positive elk farm discovered in
Stearns County in 2003, which followed the first discovery of CWD in an Aitkin
County elk farm," DonCarlos said. “The DNR response will be similar to the
Stearns County action and will include an initial assessment of wild deer
populations in the area and development of a surveillance program for next
fall."
From 2002 to 2004, DNR staff collected nearly 28,000 CWD samples statewide
and no disease found in the wild herd.
"The intensive surveillance conducted in 2003 indicated CWD was not present
in wild deer," Cornicelli said. “In addition, all indications are that this
positive captive deer has not contacted any wild deer, but we will conduct
additional surveillance this fall to be sure."
*** Chronic Wasting Disease CWD CDC REPORT MARCH 2012 ***
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Occurrence, Transmission, and Zoonotic Potential of Chronic Wasting Disease
CDC Volume 18, Number 3—March 2012
CWD has been identified in free-ranging cervids in 15 US states and 2
Canadian provinces and in ≈ 100 captive herds in 15 states and provinces and in
South Korea (Figure 1, panel B).
SNIP...
Long-term effects of CWD on cervid populations and ecosystems remain
unclear as the disease continues to spread and prevalence increases. In captive
herds, CWD might persist at high levels and lead to complete herd destruction in
the absence of human culling. Epidemiologic modeling suggests the disease could
have severe effects on free-ranging deer populations, depending on hunting
policies and environmental persistence (8,9). CWD has been associated with large
decreases in free-ranging mule deer populations in an area of high CWD
prevalence (Boulder, Colorado, USA) (5).
SNIP...
Long-term effects of CWD on cervid populations and ecosystems remain
unclear as the disease continues to spread and prevalence increases. In captive
herds, CWD might persist at high levels and lead to complete herd destruction in
the absence of human culling. Epidemiologic modeling suggests the disease could
have severe effects on free-ranging deer populations, depending on hunting
policies and environmental persistence (8,9). CWD has been associated with large
decreases in free-ranging mule deer populations in an area of high CWD
prevalence (Boulder, Colorado, USA) (5).
SNIP...
Reasons for Caution There are several reasons for caution with respect to
zoonotic and interspecies CWD transmission. First, there is strong evidence that
distinct CWD strains exist (36). Prion strains are distinguished by varied
incubation periods, clinical symptoms, PrPSc conformations, and CNS PrPSc
depositions (3,32). Strains have been identified in other natural prion
diseases, including scrapie, BSE, and CJD (3). Intraspecies and interspecies
transmission of prions from CWD-positive deer and elk isolates resulted in
identification of >2 strains of CWD in rodent models (36), indicating that
CWD strains likely exist in cervids. However, nothing is currently known about
natural distribution and prevalence of CWD strains. Currently, host range and
pathogenicity vary with prion strain (28,37). Therefore, zoonotic potential of
CWD may also vary with CWD strain. In addition, diversity in host (cervid) and
target (e.g., human) genotypes further complicates definitive findings of
zoonotic and interspecies transmission potentials of CWD. Intraspecies and
interspecies passage of the CWD agent may also increase the risk for zoonotic
CWD transmission. The CWD prion agent is undergoing serial passage naturally as
the disease continues to emerge. In vitro and in vivo intraspecies transmission
of the CWD agent yields PrPSc with an increased capacity to convert human PrPc
to PrPSc (30). Interspecies prion transmission can alter CWD host range (38) and
yield multiple novel prion strains (3,28). The potential for interspecies CWD
transmission (by cohabitating mammals) will only increase as the disease spreads
and CWD prions continue to be shed into the environment. This environmental
passage itself may alter CWD prions or exert selective pressures on CWD strain
mixtures by interactions with soil, which are known to vary with prion strain
(25), or exposure to environmental or gut degradation. Given that prion disease
in humans can be difficult to diagnose and the asymptomatic incubation period
can last decades, continued research, epidemiologic surveillance, and caution in
handling risky material remain prudent as CWD continues to spread and the
opportunity for interspecies transmission increases. Otherwise, similar to what
occurred in the United Kingdom after detection of variant CJD and its subsequent
link to BSE, years of prevention could be lost if zoonotic transmission of CWD
is subsequently identified, SNIP...SEE FULL TEXT ;
SNIP...SEE FULL TEXT ;
*** Chronic Wasting Disease CWD CDC REPORT MARCH 2012 ***
WHICH CAME FIRST, THE CART OR THE HORSE $$$
PLEASE STUDY THIS MAP, COMPARE FARMED CWD TO WILD CWD...TSS
please see full text ;
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Occurrence, Transmission, and Zoonotic Potential of Chronic Wasting Disease
CDC Volume 18, Number 3—March 2012
see much more here ;
Thursday, February 09, 2012
50 GAME FARMS IN USA INFECTED WITH CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE
Saturday, February 04, 2012
Wisconsin 16 age limit on testing dead deer Game Farm CWD Testing Protocol
Needs To Be Revised
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD WISCONSIN Almond Deer (Buckhorn Flats) Farm
Update DECEMBER 2011
The CWD infection rate was nearly 80%, the highest ever in a North American
captive herd.
RECOMMENDATION: That the Board approve the purchase of 80 acres of land for
$465,000 for the Statewide Wildlife Habitat Program in Portage County and
approve the restrictions on public use of the site.
snip...see full text and much more here ;
SNIP...SEE FULL TEXT ;
CJD9/10022
October 1994
Mr R.N. Elmhirst Chairman British Deer Farmers Association Holly Lodge
Spencers Lane BerksWell Coventry CV7 7BZ
Dear Mr Elmhirst,
CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE (CJD) SURVEILLANCE UNIT REPORT
Thank you for your recent letter concerning the publication of the third
annual report from the CJD Surveillance Unit. I am sorry that you are
dissatisfied with the way in which this report was published.
The Surveillance Unit is a completely independant outside body and the
Department of Health is committed to publishing their reports as soon as they
become available. In the circumstances it is not the practice to circulate the
report for comment since the findings of the report would not be amended. In
future we can ensure that the British Deer Farmers Association receives a copy
of the report in advance of publication.
The Chief Medical Officer has undertaken to keep the public fully informed
of the results of any research in respect of CJD. This report was entirely the
work of the unit and was produced completely independantly of the the
Department.
The statistical results reqarding the consumption of venison was put into
perspective in the body of the report and was not mentioned at all in the press
release. Media attention regarding this report was low key but gave a realistic
presentation of the statistical findings of the Unit. This approach to
publication was successful in that consumption of venison was highlighted only
once by the media ie. in the News at one television proqramme.
I believe that a further statement about the report, or indeed statistical
links between CJD and consumption of venison, would increase, and quite possibly
give damaging credence, to the whole issue. From the low key media reports of
which I am aware it seems unlikely that venison consumption will suffer
adversely, if at all.
THIRD CJD REPORT UK 1994
snip...
Consumption of venison and veal was much less widespread among both cases
and controls. For both of these meats, there was evidence of a trend with
increasing frequency of consumption being associated with increasing risk of
CJD. These associations were largely unchanged when attention was restricted to
pairs with data obtained from relatives. ...
PLUS, THE CDC DID NOT PUT THIS WARNING OUT FOR THE WELL BEING OF THE DEER
AND ELK ;
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Travel History, Hunting, and Venison Consumption Related to Prion Disease
Exposure, 2006-2007 FoodNet Population Survey
Journal of the American Dietetic Association Volume 111, Issue 6 , Pages
858-863, June 2011.
NOR IS THE FDA recalling this CWD positive elk meat for the well being of
the dead elk ;
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Noah's Ark Holding, LLC, Dawson, MN RECALL Elk products contain meat
derived from an elk confirmed to have CWD NV, CA, TX, CO, NY, UT, FL, OK RECALLS
AND FIELD CORRECTIONS: FOODS CLASS II
now, let’s see what the authors said about this casual link, personal
communications years ago. see where it is stated NO STRONG evidence. so, does
this mean there IS casual evidence ????
“Our conclusion stating that we found no strong evidence of CWD
transmission to humans”
From: TSS (216-119-163-189.ipset45.wt.net)
Subject: CWD aka MAD DEER/ELK TO HUMANS ???
Date: September 30, 2002 at 7:06 am PST
From: "Belay, Ermias"
To:
Cc: "Race, Richard (NIH)" ; ; "Belay, Ermias"
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 9:22 AM
Subject: RE: TO CDC AND NIH - PUB MED- 3 MORE DEATHS - CWD - YOUNG HUNTERS
Dear Sir/Madam,
In the Archives of Neurology you quoted (the abstract of which was attached
to your email), we did not say CWD in humans will present like variant CJD.
That assumption would be wrong. I encourage you to read the whole article
and call me if you have questions or need more clarification (phone:
404-639-3091). Also, we do not claim that "no-one has ever been infected with
prion disease from eating venison." Our conclusion stating that we found no
strong evidence of CWD transmission to humans in the article you quoted or in
any other forum is limited to the patients we investigated.
Ermias Belay, M.D. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 10:15 AM
To: rr26k@nih.gov; rrace@niaid.nih.gov; ebb8@CDC.GOV
Subject: TO CDC AND NIH - PUB MED- 3 MORE DEATHS - CWD - YOUNG HUNTERS
Sunday, November 10, 2002 6:26 PM ......snip........end..............TSS
Thursday, April 03, 2008
A prion disease of cervids: Chronic wasting disease
2008 1: Vet Res. 2008 Apr 3;39(4):41
A prion disease of cervids: Chronic wasting disease
Sigurdson CJ.
snip...
*** twenty-seven CJD patients who regularly consumed venison were reported
to the Surveillance Center***,
snip...
full text ;
Saturday, March 5, 2011
MAD COW ATYPICAL CJD PRION TSE CASES WITH CLASSIFICATIONS PENDING ON THE
RISE IN NORTH AMERICA
Sunday, February 12, 2012
National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center Cases Examined1
(August 19, 2011) including Texas
TSS
