Pennsylvania CWD Not Found in Pink 23 PA captive escapee, but where is Purple 4 and the other escapees ?
News for Immediate Release
Dec. 6, 2012
Chronic Wasting Disease Not Found in Adams County Escaped Deer
Harrisburg – The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture today confirmed
that Chronic Wasting Disease was not found in an escaped deer known by its farm
tag “Pink 23.”
The doe was part of a New Oxford, Adams County, deer farm where the disease
was first detected.
The deer escaped its farm at 1491 New Chester Road, New Oxford, in
mid-October when officials were removing the herd for testing. The doe was shot
last month on an adjoining deer farm at 1305 New Chester Road, New Oxford. Both
farms remain quarantined.
Tests are underway at the Pennsylvania State Veterinary Laboratory in
Harrisburg on a deer that escaped from an unlicensed deer farm in Huntington
County. The deer, known as “Purple 4,” was originally on a farm that was
quarantined. To date, two deer have tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease.
As a result, the agriculture department has quarantined 24 farms in 12 counties
that have been identified as being associated with the herd where deer that
tested positive for the disease were found. Deer cannot be moved on or off those
quarantined premises. Chronic Wasting Disease attacks the brains of infected
antlered animals such as deer, elk and moose, producing small lesions that
eventually result in death. Animals can get the disease through direct contact
with saliva, feces and urine from an infected animal.
There is no evidence that humans or livestock can get the disease,
according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Surveillance for the disease has been ongoing in Pennsylvania since 1998.
The agriculture department coordinates a mandatory monitoring program for more
than 23,000 captive deer on 1,100 breeding farms, hobby farms and shooting
preserves. The Pennsylvania Game Commission collects samples from
hunter-harvested deer and elk and those that appear sick or behave abnormally.
Since 1998, the commission has tested more than 38,000 free-ranging deer and elk
for the disease and all have tested negative.
For more information, visit www.agriculture.state.pa.us and click on the
“Chronic Wasting Disease Information” button on the homepage.
Media contact:
Samantha Elliott Krepps, 717-787-5085
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
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October 17, 2012, 11:33 PM
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012
PENNSYLVANIA Second Adams County Deer Tests Positive for Chronic Wasting
Disease
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
Senator Casey Urges USDA To Take Smart Steps to Implement New Measure That
Could Help Combat Chronic Wasting Disease Among Deer
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 11:50 AM
To: Press_office@casey.senate.gov Cc: ckauffman@yorkdispatch.com ; Terry S.
Singeltary Sr.
Subject: Casey Urges USDA To Take Smart Steps to Implement New Measure That
Could Help Combat Chronic Wasting Disease Among Deer
TSS
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7:48 PM
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