New Mexico DGF EXPANDS CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CONTROL AREAS, while Texas flounders
New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Contact: (505) 476-8000
ispa@state.nm.us FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, SEPT. 17, 2012:
DEPARTMENT EXPANDS CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CONTROL AREAS
SANTA FE – Chronic wasting disease in deer and elk in southern New Mexico
has prompted the Department of Game and Fish to expand areas where hunters must
observe special rules pertaining to the handling and transportation of animal
carcasses.
The Department has designated the entire Game Management Units 34, 28 and
19 as Chronic Wasting Disease Control Areas. Previously, only portions of some
units were designated as control areas.
Department rules allows hunters who take a deer or elk within a control
area to transport only certain portions of the carcass outside the boundaries of
the Game Management Unit from which it was taken. Those portions include:
Meat that is cut and wrapped, either commercially or privately. Quarters or
other portions of meat with no part of the spinal column or head attached. Meat
that has been boned out. Hides with no heads attached. Clean skull plates with
antlers attached. Clean is defined as having been immersed in a bath of at least
one part chlorine bleach and two parts water, with no meat or tissue attached.
Antlers, with or without velvet, attached to skull plate with no meat or tissue
attached. Upper canine teeth, also known as “buglers,” whistlers,” or “ivories.”
Finished taxidermied heads. Chronic wasting disease is a fatal neurological
disease found in deer, elk and moose. It belongs to a family of diseases known
as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or prion diseases. The disease
attacks the brains of infected deer, elk and moose, causing the animals to
become emaciated, display abnormal behavior and incoordination, and eventually
die.
To date, ongoing investigations by state and federal public health
officials have shown no causal relationship between CWD and human health
problems.
Hunters can assist the Department in its chronic wasting disease research
and tracking efforts by submitting deer or elk heads for testing within 48 hours
of harvest at a field-testing station within a control area. Hunters who harvest
deer or elk outside a control area can submit heads for testing at any
Department office. Participating hunters will be entered into a special drawing
for transferrable elk or oryx licenses.
For more information about chronic wasting disease, the drawing, or a
field-testing station location, please call the Department at (505) 476-8080.
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Monday, March 26, 2012
3 CASES OF CWD FOUND NEW MEXICO MULE DEER SEVERAL MILS FROM TEXAS BORDER
Sunday, October 04, 2009
CWD NEW MEXICO SPREADING SOUTH TO TEXAS 2009
2009 Summary of Chronic Wasting Disease in New Mexico New Mexico Department
of Game and Fish
CWD NEW MEXICO RECORDS IT'S 19 CASE (near Texas border again)
Date: August 29, 2007 at 6:39 pm PST
ANOTHER DEER TESTS POSITIVE FOR CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE LAS CRUCES ? New
Mexico recorded its 19th case of chronic wasting disease in deer in a sick
animal found in the Bishop's Cap area of the Organ Mountains.Officer Richard
McDonald investigated a report of an emaciated deer July 12.The animal was
unaware of human presence, chronically thirsty, urinating often, and staying in
and near a water source. Officer McDonald followed the state's protocol for
disease surveillance by killing the animal and sending it to the Veterinary
Diagnostic Laboratory in Albuquerque for testing.Based on the symptoms and the
area from which the deer came, the laboratory was instructed that chronic
wasting disease (CWD) was highly probable.Laboratory diagnostic testing
confirmed presence of CWD in this deer. Thisis the 19th deer with confirmed CWD
found since it was first detected in New Mexico in 2002. Two elk have also been
found with CWD.This deer was in Game Management Unit 19, where special CWD
restrictions already exist for hunters.Anyone who finds a deer or elk that
appears unaware of human presence and displays symptoms including droopy ears,
emaciation, chronic thirst, frequent urination, and reluctance to leave water,
should report their observations to the Department of Game and Fish, Wildlife
Management Division, (505) 476-8127.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
"Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 1:47 PM
Subject: CWD in New Mexico 35 MILES FROM TEXAS BORDER and low testing
sampling figures -- what gives TAHC ???
THREE NEW CASES OF CWD were announced in this same location this month
;
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE,
JULY 7, 2006:.
3 SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO DEER TEST POSITIVE FOR ...
Subject: CWD NEW MEXICO RECORDS IT'S 19 CASE (near Texas border
again)
Date: August 29, 2007 at 6:39 pm PST
ANOTHER DEER TESTS POSITIVE FOR CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE
LAS CRUCES
New Mexico recorded its 19th case of chronic wasting disease indeer in a
sick animal found in the Bishop's Cap area of the Organ Mountains
IF we could only put up the imaginary fence that seems to work so well per
TAHC keeping these deer and elk from coming into TEXAS from New Mexico with CWD,
if we could just use the same one for the illegal aliens, we would same a bunch
of money, and it probably would works just as bad as the one that's there now,
or NOT. ...TSS
Saturday, June 09, 2012
USDA Establishes a Herd Certification Program for Chronic Wasting Disease
in the United States
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Captive Deer Breeding Legislation Overwhelmingly Defeated During 2012
Legislative Session
Saturday, July 07, 2012
TEXAS Animal Health Commission Accepting Comments on Chronic Wasting
Disease Rule Proposal
Considering the seemingly high CWD prevalence rate in the Sacramento and
Hueco Mountains of New Mexico, CWD may be well established in the population and
in the environment in Texas at this time.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Chronic Wasting Disease Detected in Far West Texas
Thursday, July 12, 2012
CWD aka MAD DEER, ELK DISEASE TEXAS HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 Brain-eating disease found in Texas deer
CWD TEXAS STILL FLOUNDERING
Friday, September 07, 2012
Texas Wildlife Officials Considering New Deer Movement Rules in Response to
CWD
Friday, August 31, 2012
COMMITTEE ON CAPTIVE WILDLIFE AND ALTERNATIVE LIVESTOCK and CWD 2009-2012 a review
http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2012/08/committee-on-captive-wildlife-and.html
COMMITTEE ON CAPTIVE WILDLIFE AND ALTERNATIVE LIVESTOCK and CWD 2009-2012 a review
http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2012/08/committee-on-captive-wildlife-and.html
Saturday, September 01, 2012
Resistance of Soil-Bound Prions to Rumen Digestion
Monday, September 17, 2012
Rapid Transepithelial Transport of Prions Following Inhalation
TSS
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