DNR to Continue Surveillance for Chronic Wasting Disease
Posted: 12/06/2013
DNR wildlife staff will again be in the field during Iowa’s shotgun deer
seasons, collecting samples to test for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Iowa’s
wild deer herd. The effort will concentrate on portions of Northeast Iowa near
Wisconsin and Illinois as well as in Wapello, Davis, Pottawattamie and Cerro
Gordo counties, following positive tests from captive facilities in or near
those counties last year.
Many of the samples will be collected during the first half of December, as
more than 120,000 hunters take part in Iowa’s shotgun deer seasons and deer
harvested during those seasons are major sources of samples. Sampling—which
involves removing and testing the brain stem and lymph nodes--has been done on
free ranging deer across Iowa for years. Many hunters voluntarily contribute
samples of their harvested deer for these testing efforts. Most samples are
obtained by wildlife staff, checking with hunters in the field or at home
processing points.
DNR has historically focused its sampling efforts heaviest in northeast
Iowa, after Wisconsin and Illinois yielded positive cases in recent years. After
the positive findings in captive herds in 2012, DNR focused additional testing
in those counties identified above. Sampling in northeast Iowa for the 2013-2014
seasons will continue at a slightly lower intensity in order to accommodate the
additional testing in Davis, Wapello, Pottawattamie and Cerro Gordo
Counties.
Since 2002, more than 47 thousand wild deer in Iowa have been tested, with
no positive CWD result in the wild herd detected to date. “We are hopeful CWD
has not spread into Iowa’s deer herd. The only way to know this is to continue
to collect samples and do the testing. We will work through all hunting seasons,
with the peak being the shotgun seasons in December,” said Dr. Dale Garner,
Wildlife Bureau Chief.
this is good news that the DNR has decided to continue surveillance for CWD
and testing. however, I think testing needs to be increased across the board, in
every state, especially around, and inside game farms/ranches/mills etc. ...tss
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kind regards,
terry
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