Contact: Chad Stewart, 517-284-4745
DNR announces expansion of Chronic Wasting Disease Core Area and Management Zone
Additional townships and counties are affected
The Michigan Natural Resources Commission expanded the Core Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Area to include 17 townships. This area, which will continue to be referred to as Deer Management Unit (DMU) 333, now will consist of Lansing, Meridian, Williamstown, Delhi, Alaiedon and Wheatfield townships in Ingham County; DeWitt, Bath, Watertown, Eagle, Westphalia, Riley, Olive and Victor townships in Clinton County; Woodhull Township in Shiawassee County, and Oneida and Delta townships in Eaton County.
The CWD Management Zone also has expanded; it now will include the remainder of Clinton, Eaton, Ingham and Shiawassee counties, as well as all of Ionia County. The expanded Management Zone will be referred to as DMU 419.
“With the detection of CWD-positive deer in the southern part of Clinton County, we need to better understand the magnitude of the disease in those areas,” said Chad Stewart, Department of Natural Resources deer specialist. “Expanding our surveillance to include those areas is key at this point, and we need help from landowners and hunters within the expanded zone to help us with this effort.”
Other regulation changes include:
- Banning deer feeding and baiting on all
properties within the Core CWD Area and Management Zone.
- Opening Eaton and Ionia counties to the early
antlerless deer season.
- Allowing roadkill deer in the Core CWD Area to be possessed and kept with a DNR-issued salvage tag from a law enforcement officer or DNR employee, as long as the head is submitted to a DNR biologist, biologist appointee or check station. http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/deercheck_439367_7.html
Continuing from last year, other regulation reminders include:
- Those hunting within the Core CWD Area are
required to present the head of all hunter-harvested deer within 72 hours of
harvest to a DNR deer check station.
- Hunters leaving the Core CWD Area are
required to present the entire carcass of all hunter-harvested deer originating
from the Core CWD Area within 72 hours of harvest to a DNR deer check station.
(A list of deer check stations is available at michigan.gov/deercheck.)
- All live free-ranging deer from within the CWD Management Zone or Core CWD Area are prohibited from being rehabilitated. Permittees located within the CWD Management Zone or Core CWD Area may no longer rehabilitate deer.
CWD affects members of the deer family, including elk and moose. It is caused by the transmission of infectious, self-multiplying proteins (prions) contained in saliva and other body fluids of infected animals. Since the May 2015 discovery of chronic wasting disease in a free-ranging, Michigan white-tailed deer, more than 5,000 deer have been tested for CWD in order to gauge the extent of the disease across the landscape. Of those tested, seven deer were confirmed positive for the disease in Clinton and Ingham counties.
To date, there is no evidence that the disease presents any risk to non-cervids, including humans, either through contact with an infected animal or from handling venison. As a precaution, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization recommend infected animals not be consumed as food by either humans or domestic animals.
To learn more about CWD, visit mi.gov/cwd.
In an effort to end common CWD misconceptions, the DNR in mid-July will launch a 10-week CWD myth-busting campaign. Visit mi.gov/cwd for more information at that time.
The Michigan
Department of Natural Resources is committed to the conservation, protection,
management, use and enjoyment of the state’s natural and cultural resources for
current and future generations. For more information, go to www.michigan.gov/dnr.
Bi-Weekly CWD Status Update - Updated 6/24/2016
Current status of CWD surveillance efforts conducted by the DNR:
|
Deer Tested for Chronic Wasting
Disease Since Detection of Positive Deer
| |||||
| Roadkill or Found Dead |
Hunter Harvested
Deer
|
All Other
Deer
|
Total | CWD Positive Deer | |
| CWD Core Area (17 TWP) | 1054 | 1501 | 1202 | 3757 | 5 |
| CWD Management Zone* (5 County) | 150 | 875 | 84 | 1109 | 2 |
| Remainder of State | 138 | 239 | 220 | 597 | |
| Total Tested | 1342 | 2615 | 1506 | 5463 | 7 |
*excludes deer tested in the core area
http://www.michigan.gov/emergingdiseases/0,4579,7-186-25806-357110--,00.html
Friday, March 18, 2016
Michigan confirms additional CWD-positive free-ranging, white-tailed deer,
bringing the total to seven
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Michigan Deer suspected positive for CWD found in Watertown Township; Jan.
12 public meeting set
Tuesday, December 01, 2015
MICHIGAN 4TH WILD CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD SUSPECT CONFIRMED
Friday, November 13, 2015
*** Michigan Suspected CWD found in DeWitt Township deer tests are
indicating that the deer could be the fourth case
Thursday, August 06, 2015
Michigan DNR confirms third deer positive for CWD; hunter participation is
critical this fall
Friday, July 17, 2015
Michigan confirms CWD in second free-ranging white-tailed deer
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Michigan confirms state's first case of chronic wasting disease in
free-ranging white-tailed deer
Friday, July 01, 2016
TEXAS Thirteen new cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) were confirmed at
a Medina County captive white-tailed deer breeding facility on June 29,
2016
*** How Did CWD Get Way Down In Medina County, Texas?
DISCUSSION Observations of natural outbreaks of scrapie indicated that the
disease spread from flock to flock by the movement of infected, but apparently
normal, sheep which were incubating the disease.
There was no evidence that the disease spread to adjacent flocks in the
absent of such movements or that vectors or other host species were involved in
the spread of scrapie to sheep or goats; however, these possibilities should be
kept open...
Tuesday, June 07, 2016
*** Comparison of two US sheep scrapie isolates supports identification as
separate strains ***
Research Project: TRANSMISSION, DIFFERENTIATION, AND PATHOBIOLOGY OF
TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES
Scrapie-like disorder in a Nyala (Tragelaphus angasi)
IN CONFIDENCE
Spongiform encephalopathy has so far only been recorded in the sheep and
goat, man, mink, and several deer including the mule deer, black tailed deer and
the elk (most, if not all, of the deer incidents occurred in wild life parts in
Wyoming and Colorado). Clinical cases in deer all occurred from 3 1/2 to 5 years
old and usually 60-80% losses occurred over a 4 year period...
The clinical and neuropathological findings in F22 are consistent with the
spongiform encephalopathies of animals and man. The agents causing spongiform
encephalopathy in various species cannot be unequivocally distinguished and some
isolates of human agent cause neurologic disease in goats indistinguishable from
scrapie. The spongiform encephalopathies are invariably fatal once clinical
signs of disease are evident and as very high fatality rates (79% of 67 animals)
are recorded in Mule deer it is important that an awareness of the disease is
maintained at Marwell.
”The occurrence of CWD must be viewed against the contest of the locations
in which it occurred. It was an incidental and unwelcome complication of the
respective wildlife research programmes. Despite it’s subsequent recognition as
a new disease of cervids, therefore justifying direct investigation, no specific
research funding was forthcoming. The USDA veiwed it as a wildlife problem and
consequently not their province!” page 26.
Saturday, May 28, 2016
*** Infection and detection of PrPCWD in soil from CWD infected farm in
Korea Prion 2016 Tokyo ***
Friday, February 05, 2016
Report of the Committee on Wildlife Diseases FY2015 CWD TSE PRION
Detections in Farmed Cervids and Wild
Saturday, April 23, 2016
*** SCRAPIE WS-01: Prion diseases in animals and zoonotic potential 2016
***
Prion. 10:S15-S21. 2016 ISSN: 1933-6896 printl 1933-690X online
Monday, May 02, 2016
*** Zoonotic Potential of CWD Prions: An Update Prion 2016 Tokyo ***
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
NIH awards $11 million to UTHealth researchers to study deadly CWD prion
diseases Claudio Soto, Ph.D.
Public Release: 29-Jun-2016
Terry S. Singeltary Sr. Bacliff, Texas USA 77518 flounder9@verizon.net
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