CWD GONE WILD, More cervid escapees from more shooting pens on the loose in Pennsylvania
CWD GONE WILD, More cervid escapees from more shooting pens on the loose in
Pennsylvania
Deer mystery yielding clues
Source of animal shot in county park here under investigation Intelligencer
Journal Lancaster New Era Updated Jun 10, 2013 18:00
Lancaster
By AD CRABLE Staff Writer acrable@lnpnews.com
Pennsylvania Game Commission officials are investigating the source of an
unusual deer that they ordered shot in Lancaster County Central Park.
The deer, with a black tail, black behind its ears and numbered tags in
both ears, was seen regularly by park staff this past winter, traveling with the
park's white-tailed deer herd.
Dennis Warfel, a PGC wildlife conservation officer in Lancaster County,
thinks the deer could be a captive Sitka blacktailed deer native to parts of
Alaska and British Columbia, or a white-tailed deer in a rare melanistic phase —
a state of dark pigmentation.
Park rangers, knowing the current concerns about escaped deer from private
deer farms possibly spreading the dreaded deer disease chronic wasting disease,
notified the PGC.
The PGC watched the deer, which appeared healthy.
Agency policies dictate that time be given to allow the owner of an escaped
deer to notify the state Department of Agriculture — where pen-raised deer must
be registered — and for an owner to recover the animal, Warfel noted.
The PGC, after providing that time, ordered that the animal be shot.
"People are hypersensitive right now about it," Warfel said, referring to
the CWD scare.
A city police officer shot the deer Feb. 21. A sample of its brain was sent
to a state lab, where it tested negative for CWD.
Using the ear tags, the agency has been trying to determine the source of
the deer.
The investigation is close to being concluded, but "it is not clear in
whose possession the deer was when it escaped," Walt Cottrell, PGC wildlife
veterinarian, said Monday.
"It's clear this is an escaped captive deer," Cottrell said. "All over the
state, including in Lancaster County, the Game Commission is following up on
these deer because they do represent a risk factor, and this is one
example."
Warfel said an escaped deer is "more of a violation on the ag department's
side because we don't control the deer. We want to make sure the containment
area (where the deer came from) is suitable to keep the deer in."
Deer farms are a popular side industry in Lancaster County, especially
among Plain sects. Deer are raised mainly to be sold to private hunting
preserves.
Concerns over captive deer escalated last year when two deer with CWD were
found on a deer farm in Adams County. The deer had also spent time at a York
County deer farm. Another deer escaped from the Adams County site but it was
later shot and found not to have CWD.
The PGC set up a disease-management area in York and Adams counties, and
2,000 deer shot there during hunting seasons were tested. None had CWD.
Also last fall, two wild deer shot during hunting seasons in Blair County
tested positive for CWD, as well as one in Butler County.
Game officials think the arrival of CWD in western Pennsylvania may be from
the migration of wild deer from nearby Maryland and West Virginia.
No connection has been found between the captive deer with CWD in Adams
County and the CWD deer in the western part of the state.
Since the discovery of CWD in deer in both areas, the PGC has issued an
executive order forbidding feeding and rehabilitation of deer in the areas, as
well as other controls.
The agriculture department quarantined 29 deer farms in 16 counties
associated with the Adams and York County captive deer. None was in Lancaster
County.
CWD, which is always fatal to deer once they contract it, is now found in
23 states. In 13 of those states, the disease is found only in captive deer
herds.
There are 1,100 registered captive deer farms in Pennsylvania, with about
23,000 deer fenced in.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
PA Captive deer from CWD-positive farm roaming free
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Chronic Wasting Disease CWD quarantine Louisiana via CWD index herd
Pennsylvania Update May 28, 2013
6 doe from Pennsylvania CWD index herd still on the loose in Louisiana,
quarantine began on October 18, 2012, still ongoing, Lake Charles premises.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
PENNSYLVANIA 2012 THE GREAT ESCAPE OF CWD INVESTIGATION MOVES INTO
LOUISIANA and INDIANA
Monday, April 15, 2013
Deer farmers in the state of Louisiana are under a quarantine due to
Chronic Wasting Disease CWD
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
PA Captive deer from CWD-positive farm roaming free
> Ag is one of the agencies cooperating in the response plan because it
has responsibility for regulating captive deer and deer farms, of which there
are estimated to be more 23,000 on 1,100 Pennsylvania properties.
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
PA Department of Agriculture investigating possible 2nd case of chronic
wasting disease
Thursday, November 01, 2012
PA GAME COMMISSION TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS CWD Release #128-12
Friday, October 26, 2012
CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD PENNSYLVANIA GAME FARMS, URINE ATTRACTANT
PRODUCTS, BAITING, AND MINERAL LICKS
Monday, October 15, 2012
PENNSYLVANIA GAME COMMISSION AND AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT TO HOLD PUBLIC
MEETING TO DISCUSS CWD MONITORING EFFORTS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 15,
2012 Release #124-12
Commissioner Strain Sir, I believe you can see the history here, where the
state of Pennsylvania DNR forum banned me for speaking about CWD back in 2005 ;
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Pennsylvania Confirms First Case CWD Adams County Captive Deer Tests
Positive
Pennsylvania CWD number of deer exposed and farms there from much greater
than first thought
Published: Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 10:44 PM Updated: Wednesday,
October 17, 2012, 11:33 PM
Sunday, June 09, 2013
Missouri House forms 13-member Interim Committee on the Cause and Spread of
Chronic Wasting Disease CWD
snip...
I write you about the interim House committee that has been appointed to
investigate Chronic Wasting Disease CWD, and the 13-member Interim Committee on
the Cause and Spread of Chronic Wasting Disease.
Chronic Wasting Disease CWD, and other TSE prion disease, these TSE prions
know no borders.
these TSE prions know no age restrictions.
The TSE prion disease survives ashing to 600 degrees celsius, that’s around
1112 degrees farenheit.
you cannot cook the TSE prion disease out of meat.
you can take the ash and mix it with saline and inject that ash into a
mouse, and the mouse will go down with TSE.
Prion Infected Meat-and-Bone Meal Is Still Infectious after Biodiesel
Production as well.
the TSE prion agent also survives Simulated Wastewater Treatment Processes.
IN fact, you should also know that the TSE Prion agent will survive in the
environment for years, if not decades.
you can bury it and it will not go away.
The TSE agent is capable of infected your water table i.e. Detection of
protease-resistant cervid prion protein in water from a CWD-endemic area.
it’s not your ordinary pathogen you can just cook it out and be done with.
that’s what’s so worrisome about Iatrogenic mode of transmission, a simple
autoclave will not kill this TSE prion agent.
I go from state to state trying to warn of the CWD and other TSE prion
disease in other species, I just made a promise to mom. back then, there was no
information.
so, I submit this to you all in good faith, and hope that you take the time
to read my research of the _sound_, peer review science, not the junk science
that goes with the politics $$$
right or left or teaparty or independent, you cannot escape the TSE prion
disease.
there is a lot of science here to digest, but better digesting this _sound_
science, instead of the junk political science you will hear from the shooting
pen industry.
snip...see full text of my submission here ;
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Cervid Industry Unites To Set Direction for CWD Reform and seem to ignore
their ignorance and denial in their role in spreading Chronic Wasting
Disease
pens, pens, PENS ???
*** Spraker suggested an interesting explanation for the occurrence of CWD.
The deer pens at the Foot Hills Campus were built some 30-40 years ago by a Dr.
Bob Davis. At or abut that time, allegedly, some scrapie work was conducted at
this site. When deer were introduced to the pens they occupied ground that had
previously been occupied by sheep.
now, decades later ;
2012
PO-039: A comparison of scrapie and chronic wasting disease in white-tailed
deer
snip...
After a natural route of exposure, 100% of WTD were susceptible to scrapie.
Deer developed clinical signs of wasting and mental depression and were
necropsied from 28 to 33 months PI. Tissues from these deer were positive for
PrPSc by IHC and WB. Similar to IC inoculated deer, samples from these deer
exhibited two different molecular profiles: samples from obex resembled CWD
whereas those from cerebrum were similar to the original scrapie inoculum. On
further examination by WB using a panel of antibodies, the tissues from deer
with scrapie exhibit properties differing from tissues either from sheep with
scrapie or WTD with CWD. Samples from WTD with CWD or sheep with scrapie are
strongly immunoreactive when probed with mAb P4, however, samples from WTD with
scrapie are only weakly immunoreactive. In contrast, when probed with mAb’s 6H4
or SAF 84, samples from sheep with scrapie and WTD with CWD are weakly
immunoreactive and samples from WTD with scrapie are strongly positive. This
work demonstrates that WTD are highly susceptible to sheep scrapie, but on first
passage, scrapie in WTD is differentiable from CWD.
2011
*** After a natural route of exposure, 100% of white-tailed deer were
susceptible to scrapie.
Scrapie in Deer: Comparisons and Contrasts to Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
Justin J. Greenlee of the Virus and Prion Diseases Research Unit, National
Animal Disease Center, ARS, USDA, Ames, IA provided a presentation on scrapie
and CWD in inoculated deer. Interspecies transmission studies afford the
opportunity
After a natural route of exposure, 100% of white-tailed deer were
susceptible to scrapie. Deer developed clinical signs of wasting and mental
depression and were necropsied from 28 to 33 months PI. Tissues from these deer
were positive for scrapie by IHC and WB. Tissues with PrPSc immunoreactivity
included brain, tonsil, retropharyngeal and mesenteric lymph nodes, hemal node,
Peyer’s patches, and spleen. While two WB patterns have been detected in brain
regions of deer inoculated by the natural route, unlike the IC inoculated deer,
the pattern similar to the scrapie inoculum predominates.
2011 Annual Report
Research Project: TRANSMISSION, DIFFERENTIATION, AND PATHOBIOLOGY OF
TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES Location: Virus and Prion Research
Unit 2011 Annual Report
In Objective 1, Assess cross-species transmissibility of transmissible
spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in livestock and wildlife, numerous
experiments assessing the susceptibility of various TSEs in different host
species were conducted. Most notable is deer inoculated with scrapie, which
exhibits similarities to chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer suggestive of
sheep scrapie as an origin of CWD.
snip...
4.Accomplishments 1. Deer inoculated with domestic isolates of sheep
scrapie. Scrapie-affected deer exhibit 2 different patterns of disease
associated prion protein. In some regions of the brain the pattern is much like
that observed for scrapie, while in others it is more like chronic wasting
disease (CWD), the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy typically associated
with deer. This work conducted by ARS scientists at the National Animal Disease
Center, Ames, IA suggests that an interspecies transmission of sheep scrapie to
deer may have been the origin of CWD. This is important for husbandry practices
with both captive deer, elk and sheep for farmers and ranchers attempting to
keep their herds and flocks free of CWD and scrapie.
White-tailed Deer are Susceptible to Scrapie by Natural Route of Infection
snip...
This work demonstrates for the first time that white-tailed deer are
susceptible to sheep scrapie by potential natural routes of inoculation.
In-depth analysis of tissues will be done to determine similarities between
scrapie in deer after intracranial and oral/intranasal inoculation and chronic
wasting disease resulting from similar routes of inoculation.
see full text ;
*** The potential impact of prion diseases on human health was greatly
magnified by the recognition that interspecies transfer of BSE to humans by beef
ingestion resulted in vCJD. While changes in animal feed constituents and
slaughter practices appear to have curtailed vCJD, there is concern that CWD of
free-ranging deer and elk in the U.S. might also cross the species barrier.
Thus, consuming venison could be a source of human prion disease. Whether BSE
and CWD represent interspecies scrapie transfer or are newly arisen prion
diseases is unknown. Therefore, the possibility of transmission of prion disease
through other food animals cannot be ruled out. There is evidence that vCJD can
be transmitted through blood transfusion. There is likely a pool of unknown size
of asymptomatic individuals infected with vCJD, and there may be asymptomatic
individuals infected with the CWD equivalent. These circumstances represent a
potential threat to blood, blood products, and plasma supplies.
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
Saturday, March 09, 2013
Chronic Wasting Disease in Bank Voles: Characterisation of the Shortest
Incubation Time Model for Prion Diseases
TSS
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