Test results provide current snapshot of CWD in south-central Wisconsin Dane and Eastern Iowa counties Prevalence has increased in all categories
Test results provide current snapshot of CWD in south-central Wisconsin
Dane and Eastern Iowa counties Prevalence has increased in all categories
Weekly News Published - February 25, 2014
Test results provide current snapshot of CWD in south-central
Wisconsin
MADISON - Through 12 years of ongoing surveillance efforts, Department of
Natural Resources officials are able to maintain a current picture of trends and
prevalence of chronic wasting disease within the area previously known as the
CWD management zone [PDF] in southern Wisconsin.
Based on 2013 test results for the western monitoring area, encompassing
western Dane and Eastern Iowa counties where sampling has been occurring
annually since the disease was discovered, current prevalence is near 25 percent
for adult male white-tailed deer, 10 percent for adult female deer, about 7
percent in yearling males and about 6 percent in yearling females. Prevalence
has increased in all categories.
"Sampling deer from these areas where there has been long-term monitoring
of disease patterns is important to understanding the dynamics of this disease,"
said Tami Ryan, DNR Wildlife Health section chief. "Prevalence has been
increasing as expected, and we continue to find that prevalence is higher in
males than females and higher in adults than yearlings."
For 2013, DNR staff tested deer from within and outside of the CWD-MZ in
south central and southeastern Wisconsin. The sampling strategies were aimed at
detecting changes in the location and trends in prevalence of the disease.
Monitoring plans focused surveillance on adult deer, which are most likely to
have the disease.
Beginning in 2014, with the approval of the Deer Trustee Report rule
package, DNR will have a new funding source available beginning this fall to
provide hunter service testing statewide. The funding comes from having the
authority to apply $5 from each additional antlerless deer permit sale in
CWD-affected counties towards CWD testing and monitoring.
"Prior to this change, DNR received no money from additional permits sales.
We are pleased to now have a consistent funding stream for CWD testing and
monitoring," said Ryan.
Also emerging from the rule is the Deer Management Assistance Program and
the formation of county deer committees, both of which give DNR flexibility to
work locally to develop cooperative approaches to disease surveillance and
management.
"It's important to be able to work cooperatively with hunters and
landowners, as their participation is essential to CWD surveillance," said Ryan.
"It's also very important that we connect with the local communities so they can
stay informed on deer disease and DNR's approach to monitoring. They are also
the conduit for public sentiment, sharing information with us in addition to
taking information back to their community."
More information on CWD or details on 2013 sampling and prevalence is
available at dnr.wi.gov, search keyword "CWD."
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Tami Ryan, DNR Wildlife Health section chief,
608-266-3143
2008-2013 Chronic Wasting Disease Management Zones
*** As of Feb. 6, 2014 all baiting and feeding of deer must stop in both
Waupaca and Shawano counties, due to the discovery of a CWD-positive
white-tailed deer in November within a 10-mile radius of those counties.
Feeding deer banned in Shawano and Waupaca counties
News Release Published: February 6, 2014 by the Central Office
Contact(s): Jeff Pritzl, Northeast District Wildlife Supervisor, (920)
662-5127
MADISON - The baiting and feeding of white-tailed deer is now banned in
Waupaca and Shawano counties, the state Department of Natural Resources
reports.
The ban, required by state law, went into effect today. The action was
spurred by the discovery of a CWD-positive white-tailed deer in November on a
privately owned captive deer farm in Marathon County. Implementation was delayed
to avoid interference with deer hunting during the ongoing 2013 deer season at
the time of discovery.
Shawano and Waupaca counties are within a 10-mile radius of the Marathon
County property on which this CWD-positive captive deer was found. State law
requires that counties within a 10-mile radius of a game farm or free-ranging
CWD-positive are included in the baiting and feeding prohibition.
The baiting and feeding of deer is now banned in 35 of Wisconsin's 72
counties.
"We understand that this may be disappointing news to some who use bait for
deer hunting or are feeding deer for enjoyment or because they are seeking to
help them through this winter," said Jeff Pritzl, DNR wildlife supervisor for
northeast Wisconsin.
"Supplemental winter feeding of deer unnecessarily increases the risk of
spreading CWD and other diseases by concentrating deer activity at one spot.
Long-term herd health is important to preserving our great hunting tradition. It
is a foundation of tourism and vital to local businesses. This outweighs any
possible benefit to individual deer or deer watchers provided by feeding."
For more information search the DNR website for "baiting and feeding
regulations."
Individuals can still feed birds and small mammals provided the feeding
devices are at a sufficient height or are otherwise designed to prevent access
by deer and the feeding device is within 50 yards of a human dwelling. This ban
does not affect the use of bait for hunting bear or training bear dogs.
Learn more about CWD at knowcwd.com or go to the DNR website dnr.wi.gov
search the keyword "CWD."
A map of affected counties and rule specifics are on the department's Web
site.
Prevalence & surveillance
Since 2002, chronic wasting disease (CWD) prevalence within our western monitoring area has shown an overall increasing trend in all sex and age classes.
***During the past 12 years, the trend in prevalence in adult males has __risen__ from 8-10 percent to nearly 25 percent, and in adult females from about 3-4 percent to more than 10 percent.
*** During that same time, the prevalence trend in yearling males has __increased__ from about 2 percent to about 7 percent and in yearling females from roughly 2 percent to about 6 percent...
http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/wildlifehabitat/prevalence.html
CWD Deer Testing Results by Deer Management Unit (DMU)
see DMU 70A-CWD infection rate ;
Monday, December 02, 2013
WISCONSIN CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD DISCOVERED MARATHON COUNTY HUNTING
PRESERVE
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Wisconsin Second CWD positive deer found in Grant County Second CWD
positive deer found in Grant County
News Release Published: December 16, 2013 by the South Central Region
Contact(s): Tami Ryan, DNR wildlife health, 608-266-3143 Don Bates, CWD
operations. 608- 935-1947 Bob Manwell DNR communications, 608-275-3317
MADISON, Wis. -- A second deer in Grant County from outside the current
chronic wasting disease management zone has tested positive for the disease. The
1.5-year-old buck was killed and registered Nov. 24.
The most recent CWD-positive deer was harvested near the center of the
county about 7.5 miles from the border of the CWD management zone and about four
miles from the first positive which was buck shot during the 2012 season.
“This is why we have focused surveillance around the fringes of the CWD
management zone, to better understand the distribution of the disease and
identify the presence of the disease in periphery areas,” said Don Bates, DNR
CWD operations supervisor. “Based on the 2012 positive deer, and what is known
about the disease and how it spreads, finding another CWD-positive outside the
current zone boundary was not unexpected.”
This is the third year that DNR has focused surveillance around the
boundaries of the existing CWD management zone. Sampling of deer is voluntary in
these areas and in Grant County, DNR partners with private businesses to collect
samples.
“We thank all hunters who brought in deer for voluntary CWD testing during
the nine-day gun season and the businesses that helped us collect samples,”
Bates said. “This cooperation is essential to achieving our goal of detecting
trends in prevalence and distribution of the disease.”
This second positive does not change any remaining hunting seasons nor does
it change the current CWD management zone boundary. Baiting and feeding of deer
is already banned in the county and will continue to be illegal.
For more information on CWD in Wisconsin, and to view CWD management zone
maps, please visit dnr.wi.gov and search keyword “CWD.”
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Wisconsin Second CWD positive deer found in Grant County
Monday, December 02, 2013
WISCONSIN CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD DISCOVERED MARATHON COUNTY HUNTING
PRESERVE
CWD-positive White-tailed Deer Found on Marathon County Hunting Preserve
Date: December 2, 2013 Contact: Raechelle Cline, 608-224-5005 or Jim Dick,
Communications Director, 608-224-5020
MADISON – For the first time in five years, a white-tailed deer on a
hunting preserve has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), State
Veterinarian Dr. Paul McGraw announced today. This latest case was found in
Marathon County.
The National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVSL) in Ames, Iowa, reported
the final test results back to the state. The animal was a 5-year-old male and
was one of about 370 deer in the 351-acre preserve.
The deer was killed on November 4. Samples were taken on November 7 in
accordance with Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer
Protection’s (DATCP’s) rules, which require testing of farm-raised deer and elk
when they die, go to slaughter or are killed. The sample originally tested
positive at a regional laboratory and required a confirmatory test at the NVSL.
The DATCP Animal Health Division’s investigation will look at the animal’s
history and trace movements of deer onto and off the property to determine
whether other herds may have been exposed to the CWD test-positive deer.
McGraw quarantined the preserve and the other three registered farms owned
by the same entity immediately, which stops movement of live deer from the
property, except to slaughter or to their hunting preserves. The business will
be allowed to conduct hunts on the quarantined preserves, because properly
handled dead animals leaving the premises do not pose a disease risk.
This is the first new CWD test-positive deer on a Wisconsin farm since
October 2008.
Since CWD was discovered in Wisconsin in February 2002, there were
eighty-two cases from a single Portage county farm that was depopulated in 2006.
The remaining 15 cases were discovered over a six-year period from 2002 to 2008
on eight farms and hunting preserves. One of the infected animals was an elk;
the rest have been white-tailed deer. Since 1998, more than 35,700 farm-raised
deer and elk have been tested for CWD.
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12.02.13CWDPositiveMarathon.pdf
UPDATE DECEMBER 3, 2013
The 5-year-old buck was killed Nov. 4 at the Wilderness Game Farm Inc., a
hunting ranch in the Eland area, said Raechelle Cline, public information
officer for the state Division of Animal Health.
The buck was one of about 370 deer in the 351-acre preserve, said State
Veterinarian Dr. Paul McGraw.
Chronic wasting disease, or CWD, is considered a major threat to
Wisconsin’s hunting industry because it can spread from animal to animal and has
been known to devastate herds in other states. In Wisconsin, CWD is confirmed to
have killed fewer than 100 deer, almost all of them on game farms.
Monday, December 02, 2013
WISCONSIN CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD DISCOVERED MARATHON COUNTY HUNTING
PRESERVE
Sunday, November 03, 2013
Wisconsin Second CWD deer found in Portage County
Wisconsin : 436 Deer Have Escaped From Farms to Wild
Date: March 18, 2003 Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel snip...
Sunday, November 03, 2013
Wisconsin Second CWD deer found in Portage County
Second CWD deer found in Portage County
News Release
Published: November 1, 2013 by the Northwest Region Contact(s): Kris
Johansen, DNR area wildlife supervisor, 715-284-1430; Ed Culhane,
DNR communications, 715-781-1683 WISCONSIN RAPIDS – A deer harvested by a
bow hunter in southeast Portage County has tested positive for chronic wasting
disease, the state Department of Natural Resources reports. This is the second
CWD-positive wild deer found in the county. Wildlife biologists in central
Wisconsin now are asking bow hunters to assist with increased surveillance for
the disease in four separate areas where positives have been confirmed outside
the CWD management zone.
CWD is contagious and fatal for deer, elk and moose. “Last fall CWD was
discovered for the first time in three wild, white-tailed deer in Adams, Juneau
and Portage counties” said DNR area wildlife supervisor Kris Johansen. “Now we
have a second positive in a different area of Portage County. To better define
the geographic extent of CWD in central Wisconsin, we are focusing additional
surveillance around each of these four locations.”
The latest CWD positive deer was harvested Oct. 6 just northwest of Almond
in Portage County.
To view where the surveillance focus areas are located, hunters can go to
the DNR website and enter “CWD registration” in the key word search, then click
on “CWD registration and sampling.” On this page – http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/wildlifehabitat/registersample.html
– detailed maps show the precise location of these surveillance circles for the
first three positives, the ones in Adams and Juneau counties and the first find
in Portage County, located in the northwest corner of the county.
There is also a map showing the two Portage County locations. A new map,
showing the precise surveillance area for the fourth positive, in southeast
Portage County, will be added to the web page as soon as it is prepared. This
page also links to a list of cooperating taxidermists and meat processors where
samples can be collected.
The DNR is asking hunters to work with these cooperators to have head and
lymph node samples from adult deer – harvested within the four focus areas –
removed for testing. To have the sample removed, the hunter can bring the whole
deer to one of the listed cooperators or just remove the head with at least
three inches of neck attached and bring that in for sampling.
“Please call ahead to set up an appointment,” Johansen said. “These are
private business operators who are helping us out, and we want to respect their
time and their schedules.” This list will be updated online as new cooperators
join the surveillance effort:
• Wisconsin River Meats, N5340 County HH, Mauston 608-847-7413
• A&B Butchering, 6971 Hwy 34, Rudolph 715-435-3893
• Strickly Wild Processing, 140 Buffalo St, Wisconsin Rapids 715-421-0587
• Hartnell's Wild Game Processing, 1925 Cypress Ave., Arkdale 608-339-7288
• Trevor Athens Taxidermy, 982 15th Ave., Arkdale 608-547-6117
• Tall Tines Taxidermy, N2621 Cassidy Road, Mauston 608-547-0818
• Todd's Wildlife Taxidermy, N2148 State 58, Mauston 608-847-7693
• Vollmer Taxidermy, 3631 Plover Road, Plover 715-345-1934
• Field and Stream Taxidermy, 217 S. Front St., Coloma 608-547-1565
• DNR Service Center, 473 Griffith Ave., Wisconsin Rapids 715-421-7813
• Mead Wildlife Area, S2148 County S, Milladore 715-457-6771
• Adams Ranger Station, 532 N. Adams St., Adams 608-339-4819
• Almond Market, 111 Main St., Almond 715-366-2002
Hunters may also have deer from any of the four focus areas tested for CWD
by contacting one of these DNR offices:
• Mead Wildlife Area headquarters, S2148 County S, Milladore – 715-457-6771
• WI Rapids Service Center, 473 Griffith Avenue, Wisconsin Rapids –
715-421-7813
• Adams-Friendship Ranger Station, 532 N. Main Street, Adams – 608-339-4819
On the weekends or during warm periods, hunters should remove the deer head
with at least three inches of neck attached, freeze the head and then contact
the DNR to arrange a drop off. DNR staff will also collect samples from
hunter-harvested deer on the opening weekend of the gun deer season. Collection
stations and hours will be published prior to the gun deer season. The CWD tests
are free to hunters. Each person who submits a head for testing will receive lab
results within three or four weeks. http://dnr.wi.gov/news/BreakingNews_Lookup.asp?id=2996
14 YEARS AGO
THE YEAR 2000
Stop the madness: CWD threatens Wisconsin's elk, deer and, ultimately,
people.
15 July 00
The Isthmus magazine By BRIAN McCOMBIE
Imagine a disease worse than AIDS rippling through Wisconsin's deer herd.
One that's always fatal, cannot be tested for in live animals, and has the
chance of spreading to anyone who eats the infected venison. Sound like the
premise for Michael Crichton's next apocalyptic thriller?
Unfortunately, such a disease already exists in epidemic levels in the
wilds of Colorado and Wyoming. It's infected some game farms, too, and Wisconsin
game farmers have imported more than 350 elk with the potential for this
disease, including elk from farms known to be infected.
"If most people knew what kind of risk this disease poses to free-ranging
deer in the state, they'd be very concerned," says Dr. Sarah Hurley, Lands
Division administrator for the Department of Natural Resources. The DNR is now
testing free-ranging deer around these game farms for the disease: "We're
focusing our energies on those areas where we think there's the greatest
possibility of transmission."
The malady the DNR's looking for is chronic wasting disease (CWD)--better
known, to the extent it is known at all, as mad elk disease. It's a form of the
mad cow disease that devastated Britain's cattle industry in the 1980s, scared
the bejesus out of the populace, and is believed to have killed at least 70
people to date. An elk or deer with CWD can be listless, may walk in circles,
will lose weight and interact progressively less with fellow animals.
The corresponding human affliction is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
(pronounced Croytz-feld Yawkob) or CJD. People with CJD experience symptoms
similar to Alzheimer's, including memory loss and depression, followed by
rapidly progressive dementia and death, usually within one year. While CJD is
rare (literally one in a million odds of getting it), over the last few years at
least three deer hunters have died of it. There is no proof either way whether
they contracted the disease from CWD-infected venison, but new research says it
is possible.
All three varieties--mad cow, mad elk and CJD--belong to a family of
diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. These diseases alter
the conformation of proteins in the brain called prions; after-death brain
samples usually show a series of microscopic holes in and around brain cells.
No one is exactly sure how mad elk disease spreads. At first, transmittal
through blood seemed likely, as from mother to fawn. But CWD has moved between
adult animals at game farms, leading scientists to conclude that it can be
spread through saliva or simple contact. Also, the rates of transmission are
higher in areas where animals have the most opportunities for contact.
Wisconsin's concentrated population of 1.7 million deer interact freely with
each other, and scientific modeling suggests CWD could tear through our deer
herd devastatingly fast. Despite the danger, Wisconsin and other states are
relying on only sporadic testing and a system of voluntary compliance. It's a
system that some say has more holes in it than a CWD-infected brain.
At present, Wisconsin game farm owners, even those harboring elk and deer
brought in from farms with known cases of CWD, do not have to call a
veterinarian if a deer or elk suddenly dies or acts strange. They're also not
required to inform the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) or the
Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) if animals
escape into the wild.
"The lax attitude is pretty shocking," says John Stauber, a Madison
activist and co-author of Mad Cow U.S.A. To protect people and deer, Stauber
argues for an immediate importation ban for game farms, plus programs of testing
and surveillance. He suggests both DATCP and DNR aren't taking such measures
because, as the regulators in charge, they don't want to find the CWD he thinks
is likely already in state. "It's in their bureaucratic interest to not
[actively] look for CWD in the game farms," says Stauber. "Because if they find
it, who's to blame?"
In the wild and especially out west, chronic wasting disease is spreading
fast. Northeastern Colorado documented its first case in 1981. By the mid-1990s,
samplings of mule deer brains showed 3% to 4% testing positive for CWD. Within a
few years, the rate was 8%, and now Larimer County, the center of the endemic
area, has a 15% rate of infection among mule deer. It's also being found in deer
and elk in Wyoming.
"Fifteen percent of a wild population of animals with this disease is
staggering," says Dr. Thomas Pringle, who tracks CWD-type diseases for the
Sperling Biomedical Foundation in Eugene, Ore. "It's basically unheard of. This
appears to be an unusually virulent strain. with highly efficient horizontal
transmission mechanisms."
CWD could eventually spread to Wisconsin on its own, animal to animal. But
that would take decades. Game farms, though, provide a mechanism to cut through
all that time and distance and drop CWD smack in the middle of the state.
An open-records search by Isthmus reveals that the first shipment of farm
elk from areas with CWD in the wild occurred in 1992, with 66 Colorado elk going
to a game farm in Plymouth. In April 1998, DATCP was informed that a Bloomer
game farm had purchased one elk from a Nebraska farm later found to be
CWD-infected. This prompted a Sept. 15, 1998, memo from Steven Miller, head of
the DNR's Lands Division, to Secretary George Meyer, with copies to DATCP chief
Ben Brancel and Gov. Tommy Thompson. In it, Miller recommends that Wisconsin
follow the lead of Montana (which found CWD on two game farms) and place "a
moratorium on the importation of all game farm animals.... At present it appears
the only way to help assure the disease does not spread into Wisconsin."
But the moratorium was never put in place, so it's possible that even more
elk potentially carrying CWD are now in state.
Instead of a moratorium, Wisconsin has opted for testing. It is among 12
states and two Canadian provinces that currently test deer for CWD. Last year,
the Wisconsin DNR began testing road- and hunter-killed deer in 1999 within a
five-mile radius of game farms that have brought in elk from CWD-infected areas.
Test areas include all or part of Fond du Lac, Dodge, Jefferson, Sheboygan and
Washington counties. All of the approximately 250 brains examined in 1999 came
back negative; this year, 500 to 600 deer will be tested.
Meanwhile, DATCP is asking owners of game farms that have animals from
herds known to have cases of CWD infection to voluntarily enter a surveillance
program. The agency's top veterinarian, Dr. Clarence Siroky, argues that
voluntary compliance makes more sense than a moratorium because, ban or no ban,
game farm operators "are going to find a way to bring these animals into the
state. We don't have police patrols and impregnable borders to keep anything in
or out."
With voluntary compliance, Siroky says, at least there are records of
animals entering the state. So if CWD or other diseases are discovered, the
animals can be traced back to their original herds and other farms they may have
been at. "It's better to know where the animals are coming in from," he insists.
Siroky may be right that an importation ban would result in some game farms
smuggling in animals. But currently, game farmers can bring in any deer or elk,
even those from known CWD-infected areas, so long as they can produce a health
certificate showing the animal's been tested. The problem is that no test exists
to find CWD in live animals. Animals can carry CWD for years and still look
healthy, so some of the 370 elk shipped into Wisconsin between 1996 and 1999
from CWD areas could have the disease. The odds are even higher for animals
purchased from farms later found to have CWD.
Wisconsin has approximately 100 deer or elk farms and they're big business.
On the Internet, prices for elk calves start at $1,500, and breeding bulls go
for up to $20,000. Some farms sell venison and the velvet that peels from new
elk antlers (considered an aphrodisiac in Asia). Others offer "hunts" costing
between $1,000 and $5,000 for trophy deer, to more than $10,000 for bull elk
with massive antlers.
Given these economics, it's reasonable to question why anyone with a
suspicion of CWD in his or her herd would call in state regulators or a vet. A
farm with a proven CWD case, confirms Dr. Robert Ehlenfeldt, DATCP's director of
Animal Disease Control, would be shut down indefinitely.
And if a problem develops on a Wisconsin game farm, there's no guarantee
that's where it will stay. Dr. Hurley says even fenced-in animals have easy
nose-to-nose contact with wild and other farmed animals. Besides, as the DNR's
chief of special operations Thomas Solin has documented, many game farms are not
secure. Gates are sometimes left open. Fences rust and break, rot and topple,
get crushed by fallen trees. Even if game farm animals don't escape, such
breaches allow wild deer to get in, mingle with the farmed deer and elk, then
leave.
Unlike other diseases, there's no test for CWD in living animals because it
doesn't create an immune system counter-response, detectable through blood
analysis. You can't kill CWD and related diseases by cooking the meat. One test
Stauber recounts in Mad Cow U.S.A. found that scrapie, a sheep form of CWD,
stayed viable after a full hour at 680 degrees Fahrenheit. Most disinfectants
don't kill these diseases, either, and they can exist in the soil for years.
And while diseases like mad cow and mad elk do have some trouble jumping
from species to species, it can happen. This May, Byron Caughey of the National
Institutes of Health announced that he had converted human brain materials with
mad-elk-contaminated brain matter at rates roughly equal to the transfer between
mad cow and humans.
Says Dr. Pringle, referring to Caughey's work, "CWD may not transmit that
easily, but the rate isn't zero." Pringle notes that the test Caughey used has
been a very reliable proxy in the past in determining transmission possibilities
for other diseases, including mad cow.
Once they jump the species barrier, transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
diseases adapt to fit the new host and are then passed on rather easily within
that species. Unfortunately, says Pringle, no one is trying to determine if CWD
has jumped into people as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Making matters more
difficult is the fact that the disease can incubate for decades before symptoms
are seen.
In states with CWD-infected deer, thousands of people have undoubtedly been
exposed to CWD-infected venison. A February 1998 Denver Post article tells of
one hunter who's venison tested positive for CWD. By the time he was notified,
his meat had already been ground up and mixed with meat from hundreds of other
deer for venison sausage.
With AIDS, Pringle notes, there was a definite overreaction, with people
initially afraid to even shake hands with people infected with the virus.
Looking at the CWD situation in Colorado, he says there's been complete
underreaction. "It's like, oh, what the hell. Nobody's died yet--so keep eating
the venison!'" Pringle worries that if the disease is found in humans, it will
be so only after years of spreading through the human community.
Looking over documents obtained by Isthmus through its open-records
request, Stauber says DATCP is behaving more like a lobbyist for the game farm
industry than an agency bent on protecting Wisconsin's people from CWD. He
points to DATCP's Cervidae Advisory Committee as a prime example. In a Nov. 11,
1998, memo from Siroky to DATCP secretary Ben Brancel, Siroky notes that the
committee is needed to "obtain information from the public concerning disease
regulation" of farmed deer and elk, and "to help formulate action plans for
importation requirements, prevention and control" of CWD. But of the 12 people
Siroky nominates, one's a DNR warden, one's a DATCP employee, and the other 10
are game farm owners. And two of these owners were among those DATCP knew had
purchased elk from farms at high risk of having CWD.
"There's no significant input from anyone else," says Stauber. "Farmers,
deer hunters and consumers are all left out. Meanwhile, the government's failing
to take all necessary precautions to alert the public to this potential health
threat."
Friday, February 03, 2012
Wisconsin Farm-Raised Deer Farms and CWD there from 2012 report Singeltary
et al
*** PRICE OF CWD TSE PRION POKER GOES UP 2014 ***
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy TSE PRION update January 2, 2014
*** chronic wasting disease, there was no absolute barrier to conversion of
the human prion protein.
*** Furthermore, the form of human PrPres produced in this in vitro assay
when seeded with CWD, resembles that found in the most common human prion
disease, namely sCJD of the MM1 subtype.
*** 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.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
*** CWD TSE Prion in cervids to hTGmice, Heidenhain Variant
Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease MM1 genotype, and iatrogenic CJD ??? ***
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
APHIS-2006-0118-0100 Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program and
Interstate Movement of Farmed or Captive Deer, Elk, and Moose
p.s. update today...iatrogenic TSE, can’t say I did not tell them, course,
that does not change the ignorance of it all. ...somehow I failed getting them
the word that meant something to arouse awareness. ...tss
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF CJD, VCJD AND OTHER HUMAN PRION
DISEASES IN HEALTHCARE AND COMMUNITY SETTINGS Variably Protease-Sensitive
Prionopathy (VPSPr) January 15, 2014
Thursday, October 03, 2013
TAHC ADOPTS CWD RULE THAT the amendments REMOVE the requirement for a
specific fence height for captives
Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) ANNOUNCEMENT October 3, 2013
Tuesday, February 04, 2014
Indiana Hunting preserves Sen. Carlin Yoder Senate Bill 404 and Rep.
William Friend House Bill 1154 DEAD IN THE WATER ?
Saturday, June 29, 2013
PENNSYLVANIA CAPTIVE CWD INDEX HERD MATE YELLOW *47 STILL RUNNING LOOSE IN
INDIANA, YELLOW NUMBER 2 STILL MISSING, AND OTHERS ON THE RUN STILL IN LOUISIANA
Monday, June 24, 2013
The Effects of Chronic Wasting Disease on the Pennsylvania Cervid Industry
Following its Discovery
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
CWD GONE WILD, More cervid escapees from more shooting pens on the loose in
Pennsylvania
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, August 21, 2013
IOWA DNR EMERGENCY CONSENT ORDER IN THE MATTER OF TOM & LINDA BRAKKE
D/B/A PINE RIDGE HUNTING LODGE UPDATE AUGUST 21, 2013
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5. On July 16, 2012, DNR received a notice from the Texas Veterinary
Medical Diagnostic Lab ("Texas Vet Lab”) that a sample from an adult male deer
killed at Pine Ridge tested presumptively positive for CWD. (DNR has an
agreement with the Texas Vet Lab to run these preliminary tests.) Because the
Texas Vet Lab found this presumptive positive result, protocols required the
sample to be sent to the National Veterinary Services Laboratory ("National
Lab”) in Ames, Iowa for final confirmation. On July 18, 2012, the National Lab
confirmed the positive CWD result in the deer.
6. On July 19, 2012, DNR notified the Brakkes of the positive test by
phone. Mr. Brakke was out of state.
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12. The Brakkes depopulated the Hunting Preserve, as specified in the
Agreement, from September 10, 2012 to January 31, 2013. As part of this effort,
the Brakkes, the staff and their customers killed 199 captive deer and nine
captive elk. The DNR obtained 170 CWD samples. (Samples were not taken from
fawns and one adult female who was killed in a manner that made sampling
impossible.) Of these 199 deer, two additional adult male deer tested positive
for CWD. Information provided by the Brakkes confirmed that these two additional
deer originated from the Brakke Breeding Facility.
13. DNR installed, with the Brakke's permission, an interior electric fence
on October 1 and 2, 2012.
14. The Brakkes cleaned and disinfected, under DNR supervision, the feeders
and ground surrounding the feeders on April 5, 2013.
15. On April 26, 2013, the Brakkes hand-delivered a notice to the DNR’s
Chief of Law Enforcement Bureau, notifying the DNR that they would no longer
operate a hunting preserve on the Quarantined Premises. The Brakkes did not
reveal any plans to remove the fence around the Quarantined Premises or to
remove the gates to and from the Quarantined Premises in this April 26, 2013
letter.
16. On June 3, 2013, DNR became aware that sections of the exterior fence
surrounding the Quarantined Premises had been removed and that some, if not all,
of the exterior gates to and from the Quarantined Premises were open.
17. On June 4, 2013, DNR received reports from the public in the area that
four wild deer were observed inside the Quarantined Premises.
18. On June 5, 2013, DNR conducted a fence inspection, after gaining
approval from surrounding landowners, and confirmed that the fenced had been cut
or removed in at least four separate locations; that the fence had degraded and
was failing to maintain the enclosure around the Quarantined Premises in at
least one area; that at least three gates had been opened; and that deer tracks
were visible in and around one of the open areas in the sand on both sides of
the fence, evidencing movement of deer into the Quarantined Premises.
IV. CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
IOWA DNR EMERGENCY CONSENT ORDER IN THE MATTER OF TOM & LINDA BRAKKE
D/B/A PINE RIDGE HUNTING LODGE UPDATE AUGUST 21, 2013
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
*** cwd - cervid captive livestock escapes, loose and on the run in the
wild
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Wisconsin tracks 81 deer from game farm with CWD buck to seven other states
Saturday, February 22, 2014
*** New chronic wasting disease rules enhance risks professor John Fischer
of the University of Georgia told the 37th meeting of the Southeast Deer Study
Group
TSS
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