Illinois Loosing Ground to Chronic Wasting Disease CWD cases mounting with 
71 confirmed in 2015 and 538 confirmed cases to date
 
 
Chronic Wasting Disease Page Content Update July 1, 2015: We now have a 
total of 538 cases of CWD
 
Note: Years are reported by fiscal year: 2015 is the period from July 1, 
2014 through June 30, 2015, etc.
 
Total CWD Cases per year:
 
Year Cases 
2015 71 
2014 59 
2013 36 
2012 36 
2011 42 
2010 37 
2009 30 
2008 
38 
2007 42 
2006 51 
2005 31 
2004 51 
2003 14 
Total 538 
 
 
 
see history of CWD in Illinois here 
 
Saturday, February 08, 2014 
 
Illinois CWD confirmed in Will County deer
 
Chronic Wasting Disease Illinois 
 
Update July 1, 2013:
 
We now have a total of 408 cases of CWD.
 
Note: Years are reported by fiscal year: 2013 is the period from July 1, 
2012 through June 30, 2013, etc. 
 
 
Illinois CWD-Infected Sections - August 15, 2013 
 
 
 
Friday, August 28, 2015 
 
Chronic Wasting Disease CWD TSE Prion Diagnostics and subclinical infection 
 
 
Monday, August 24, 2015 
 
Ohio wildlife officials ramp up fight against fatal deer brain disease 
after 17 more positive tests CWD 
 
 
Sunday, August 23, 2015 
 
TAHC Chronic Wasting Disease CWD TSE Prion and how to put lipstick on a pig 
and take her to the dance in Texas
 
 
Thursday, August 20, 2015 
 
TEXAS CAPTIVE Deer Industry, Pens, Breeding, Big Business, Invites Crooks 
and CWD
 
 
Tuesday, August 11, 2015 
 
Wisconsin doing what it does best, procrastinating about CWD yet again 
thanks to Governor Walker 
 
 
Friday, August 14, 2015 
 
Susceptibility of cattle to the agent of chronic wasting disease from elk 
after intracranial inoculation
 
 
Friday, August 14, 2015 
 
Carcass Management During a Mass Animal Health Emergency Draft Programmatic 
Environmental Impact Statement—August 2015 
 
 
CWD TO HUMAN RISK FACTOR RISES !
 
PRION 2015 CONFERENCE FT. COLLINS CWD RISK FACTORS TO HUMANS 
 
*** LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACTS PRION 2015 CONFERENCE *** 
 
O18 
 
Zoonotic Potential of CWD Prions 
 
Liuting Qing1, Ignazio Cali1,2, Jue Yuan1, Shenghai Huang3, Diane Kofskey1, 
Pierluigi Gambetti1, Wenquan Zou1, Qingzhong Kong1 1Case Western Reserve 
University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy, 
3Encore Health Resources, Houston, Texas, USA 
 
***These results indicate that the CWD prion has the potential to infect 
human CNS and peripheral lymphoid tissues and that there might be asymptomatic 
human carriers of CWD infection.*** 
 
P.105: RT-QuIC models trans-species prion transmission 
 
Kristen Davenport, Davin Henderson, Candace Mathiason, and Edward Hoover 
Prion Research Center; Colorado State University; Fort Collins, CO USA 
 
Additionally, human rPrP was competent for conversion by CWD and fCWD. 
 
***This insinuates that, at the level of protein:protein interactions, the 
barrier preventing transmission of CWD to humans is less robust than previously 
estimated.*** 
 
 
Thursday, July 23, 2015 
 
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) 101 Drs. Walter Cook & Donald S. Davis 
 
 
 
Terry S. Singeltary Sr. 
 
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