Kansas Four more deer test positive for chronic wasting disease
Four more deer test positive for chronic wasting disease
By Michael Pearce The Wichita Eagle Published Saturday, March 9, 2013, at
6:29 p.m. Updated Sunday, March 10, 2013, at 12:35 a.m.
Four Kansas deer recently tested positive for chronic wasting disease,
according to Shane Hesting, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism
disease biologist. The department has been testing for the disease that’s always
fatal in deer, but has never been found in livestock or humans, for about 15
years.
Hesting said the deer came from Ellis, Norton, Sherman and Trego counties.
It’s the first such case from Ellis County.
CWD was first found in a lone deer in Cheyenne County, in extreme northwest
Kansas, in 2005. It’s since moved steadily eastward and southward. To date 52
Kansas animals have tested positive for the disease from more than 20,000
tested. In 2011, eight Kansas deer tested positive for the disease. One was from
Stafford County, the closest case to Wichita. A deer killed in Sumner County the
same year was initially classified as infected, but it later tested negative.
Hesting said Wildlife and Parks’ testing program has changed since the loss
of federal funding this year. Only about 375 deer were tested this year,
compared to about 2,500 in 2012. To get the most from the limited sample budget,
Hesting said Wildlife and Parks is testing different regions of the state
annually.
They’re also focusing their testing on mature animals, since they have a
higher chance of contracting the contagious disease. All four of the recent
positives were bucks at least 3 1/2 years old. Three were shot by hunters. The
other was found leaning against a wall in Norton County, emaciated and drooling
in October. A game warden killed the animal and submitted it for testing.
CWD was first found along the Colorado/Wyoming border in the mid-1960s, and
has recently been found as far east as Pennsylvania and New York.
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KANSAS
Chronic Wasting Disease
The first case of CWD was found in a captive elk in Harper County in 2001.
Since that time, CWD has been detected in 49 wild, free-ranging white-tailed and
1 mule deer in Deer Management Units (DMU) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 17.
In 2010-2011 the first positive mule deer was detected in Decatur County.
Currently, the total number of positives since surveillance started in 1996 is
51 (1 captive elk, 1 mule deer, and 49 white-tailed deer). Hunters and other
wildlife enthusiasts can avoid the human-assisted spread of CWD by not
transporting a live or dead deer or elk from areas where CWD occurs to those
areas which are CWD-free. There is currently no known treatment or eradication
method for CWD, so preventing the introduction of the the disease into new areas
is of utmost importance to the health of local deer herds. Baiting and feeding
deer tend to concentrate deer at small point on the landscape, often with the
trails leading to the feeding sites resembling the wheel spokes of a bicycle.
Anytime animals are concentrated at the "hub," the likelihood of disease
transmission increases in a deer herd. More alarming, CWD is not the only
serious disease of concern. Diseases such as bovine tuberculosis and a host of
detrimental parasites such as exotic lice, meningeal worms, flukes, and stomach
worms are transmitted more efficiently when deer are concentrated in a small
area.
Another major concern is the potential for spread of CWD from captive
cervid farms into the wild cervid population. Once a disease gets into a wild
population, it is virtually impossible eradicate. The only thing that can be
done is control the spread of the disease at great expense. KDWPT recommends
that every captive cervid rancher enroll in the voluntary CWD monitoring program
administered by the Kansas Animal Health Department. The sooner diseases such as
CWD can be detected in captives, the sooner control efforts can begin and
possibly prevent the spread of disease to wild populations of the state. CWD is
only one of many diseases that could go undetected in an unmonitored captive
cervid herd. Bovine tuberculosis, for example, is a serious disease that could
seriously damage not only populations of deer and an annual 350 million-dollar
hunting economy, but could also threaten the 4 billion-dollar Kansas cattle
industry via quarantines and loss of accreditation.
2012-2013 CWD CONFIRMED POSITIVES by County (Surveillance Reduced to
Northcentral Zone Due to Funding Cuts)
Norton = 1
Trego = 1
Ellis = 1
Kansas Counties with CWD Detections (County and Number of Positives To
Date) Decatur = 24
Rawlins = 5
Norton = 4
Sheridan = 3
Cheyenne = 2
Graham = 2
Trego = 2
Thomas = 1
Logan = 1
Ford = 1
Sherman = 1
Stafford = 1
Wallace = 1
Smith = 1
Ellis = 1
Harper = 1
Thursday, July 19, 2012
NINE DEER TEST POSITIVE FOR CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE
Thursday, February 09, 2012
THREE KANSAS DEER CONFIRMED POSITIVE IN EARLY STAGES OF CWD TESTING
Thursday, March 31, 2011
TEN KANSAS DEER CONFIRMED POSITIVE IN CWD TESTS
Thursday, January 06, 2011
KANSAS FIRST CASE OF CHRONIC WASTING IN 2010 DEER SEASON CONFIRMED
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Kansas has more CWD cases
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Captive Deer Breeding Legislation Overwhelmingly Defeated During 2012
Legislative Session
Surveillance for CWD in free-ranging populations has documented a continual
geographic spread of the disease throughout North America.
Volume 18, Number 3—March 2012
Synopsis
Occurrence, Transmission, and Zoonotic Potential of Chronic Wasting Disease
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Originally recognized only in southeastern Wyoming and northeastern
Colorado, USA, CWD was reported in Canada in 1996 and Wisconsin in 2001 and
continues to be identified in new geographic locations (Figure 1, panel A). 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). Except in South Korea, CWD has not been detected
outside North America. In most locations reporting CWD cases in free-ranging
animals, the disease continues to emerge in wider geographic areas, and
prevalence appears to be increasing in many disease-endemic areas. Areas of
Wyoming now have an apparent CWD prevalence of near 50% in mule deer, and
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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).
Friday, February 08, 2013
*** Behavior of Prions in the Environment: Implications for Prion Biology
Friday, November 09, 2012
*** Chronic Wasting Disease CWD in cervidae and transmission to other
species
Sunday, November 11, 2012
*** Susceptibilities of Nonhuman Primates to Chronic Wasting Disease
November 2012
Friday, December 14, 2012
Susceptibility Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in wild cervids to Humans 2005
- December 14, 2012
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
*** A Growing Threat How deer breeding could put public trust wildlife at
risk
as the crow flies, something to ponder also ;
Friday, March 01, 2013
Pennsylvania CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE FOUND IN BLAIR AND BEDFORD COUNTIES
GAME COMMISSION TO HOLD CWD NEWS CONFERENCE MONDAY, MARCH 4
more on Great Escape of CWD from Pennsylvania 2012 coming out of Indiana
A farm in Pennsylvania, where chronic wasting disease was detected, has
sold 10 animals to farms in Indiana over the past three years. DNR spokesman
Phil Bloom said two were sold to farms in Noble and Whitley counties; the rest
went to two facilities in Jackson County, one of which is the site of the
escape.
see full text and more ;
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
PENNSYLVANIA 2012 THE GREAT ESCAPE OF CWD INVESTIGATION MOVES INTO
LOUISIANA and INDIANA
Monday, January 28, 2013
Chronic Wasting Disease been found in Maryland February 2011, DNR received
positive laboratory confirmation
WV cwd
see map ;
does not look good for Ohio or Indiana...testing and time will
tell...
what about Texas and CWD ?
yep, while the Texas deer czar dr. dough was off to Wisconsin pushing the
privately owned shooting pen industry (livestock cervids industry), Texas fell
to CWD, and just reported 4 more CWD postives. ...
for your information...
According to Wisconsin’s White-Tailed Deer Trustee Dr. James Kroll, people
who call for more public hunting opportunities are “pining for socialism.” He
further states, “(Public) Game management is the last bastion of
communism.”
“Game Management,” says James Kroll, driving to his high-fenced,
two-hundred-acre spread near Nacogdoches, “is the last bastion of communism.”
Kroll, also known as Dr. Deer, is the director of the Forestry Resources
Institute of Texas at Stephen F. Austin State University, and the “management”
he is referring to is the sort practiced by the State of Texas. The 55-year-old
Kroll is the leading light in the field of private deer management as a means to
add value to the land. His belief is so absolute that some detractors refer to
him as Dr. Dough, implying that his eye is on the bottom line more than on the
natural world.
Kroll, who has been the foremost proponent of deer ranching in Texas for
more than thirty years, doesn’t mind the controversy and certainly doesn’t fade
in the heat. People who call for more public lands are “cocktail
conservationists,” he says, who are really pining for socialism. He calls
national parks “wildlife ghettos” and flatly accuses the government of gross
mismanagement. He argues that his relatively tiny acreage, marked by eight-foot
fences and posted signs warning off would-be poachers, is a better model for
keeping what’s natural natural while making money off the land.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Dr. James C. Kroll Texas deer czar final report on Wisconsin
Friday, June 01, 2012
*** TEXAS DEER CZAR TO WISCONSIN ASK TO EXPLAIN COMMENTS
Thursday, March 29, 2012
TEXAS DEER CZAR SAYS WISCONSIN DNR NOT DOING ENOUGH ABOUT CWD LIKE POT
CALLING KETTLE BLACK
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Chronic Wasting Disease Detected in Far West Texas
Monday, February 11, 2013
TEXAS CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD Four New Positives Found in Trans Pecos
layperson
Terry S. Singeltary Sr. P.O. Box 42 Bacliff, Texas USA 77518
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