Arkansas One elk from 2016 regular season tests positive for CWD
Arkansas One elk from 2016 regular season tests positive for CWD
One elk from 2016 regular
season tests positive for CWD
JASPER – One elk from the 52 taken so far in 2016 has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The elk, harvested in southwestern Searcy County on private land, was a 2.5-year old bull taken during the elk management assistance program quota hunt.
According to Wes Wright, elk program coordinator, all samples from the public land hunts... were found to have no evidence of CWD. The AGFC is still waiting on results from all other samples taken from the eight elk harvested outside the core elk zone.
“This is only the sixth elk which tested positive in the state since the initial detection of the disease in Arkansas,” Wright said. “We’ve sampled more than 40 target elk since February that looked sick, and 52 from the 2016 hunting season, and the prevalence of CWD within the elk herd appears to be extremely low.”
The results have Wright in good spirits because the prevalence remains low in the elk herd.
“Obviously, we didn’t want it in Arkansas at all, but it was really only a matter of time,” Wright said. “But the very low prevalence of the disease in the elk herd is much better news than we anticipated going into the season.”
The hunter who harvested the CWD-positive elk has been notified of the test results.
CWD is a neurological disease that’s part of a group of diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Once in a host’s body, prions transform normal cellular protein into abnormal shapes that accumulate until the cell ceases to function. As the brains of infected animals degenerate, they lose weight, lose their appetite and develop an insatiable thirst. They tend to stay away from herds, walk in patterns, carry their head low, salivate and grind their teeth.
Visit www.agfc.com/cwd for more information.
JASPER – One elk from the 52 taken so far in 2016 has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The elk, harvested in southwestern Searcy County on private land, was a 2.5-year old bull taken during the elk management assistance program quota hunt.
According to Wes Wright, elk program coordinator, all samples from the public land hunts... were found to have no evidence of CWD. The AGFC is still waiting on results from all other samples taken from the eight elk harvested outside the core elk zone.
“This is only the sixth elk which tested positive in the state since the initial detection of the disease in Arkansas,” Wright said. “We’ve sampled more than 40 target elk since February that looked sick, and 52 from the 2016 hunting season, and the prevalence of CWD within the elk herd appears to be extremely low.”
The results have Wright in good spirits because the prevalence remains low in the elk herd.
“Obviously, we didn’t want it in Arkansas at all, but it was really only a matter of time,” Wright said. “But the very low prevalence of the disease in the elk herd is much better news than we anticipated going into the season.”
The hunter who harvested the CWD-positive elk has been notified of the test results.
CWD is a neurological disease that’s part of a group of diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Once in a host’s body, prions transform normal cellular protein into abnormal shapes that accumulate until the cell ceases to function. As the brains of infected animals degenerate, they lose weight, lose their appetite and develop an insatiable thirst. They tend to stay away from herds, walk in patterns, carry their head low, salivate and grind their teeth.
Visit www.agfc.com/cwd for more information.
9. Increase private
lands EMAP antlerless elk quota Code: A1.09, C1.15 Justification:
The most recent aerial
elk survey data indicates that there are over 600 elk known alive in Arkansas.
The elk management strategy has been to harvest approximately 10% of the
standing crop, annually. The average harvest for the past two elk seasons has
been 50 elk. Additionally, AGFC employees have collected over 25 elk for
disease surveillance purposes, but this also has served as a management
strategy. The herd can sustain additional antlerless harvest and population
levels should be stabilized as more information is gathered regarding CWD in
Arkansas.
Wednesday, August 10,
2016
Arkansas Chronic Wasting
Disease CWD TSE Prion Potentially Trucked in from Missouri, what about Florida
and ?
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Arkansas CWD 101
positive cases documented to date, Biologists to take additional samples in in
southern Pope County, Aug. 1-5
Tuesday, May 03, 2016
Arkansas Chronic Wasting
Disease CWD TSE Prion and Elk Restoration Project and Hunkering Down in the BSE
Situation Room USDA 1998
Sunday, November 13,
2016
Horizontal Transmission
of Chronic Wasting Disease in Reindeer CDC Volume 22, Number 12—December 2016
Friday, September 30, 2016
DEFRA What is the risk of a cervid TSE being introduced from
Norway into Great Britain? Qualitative Risk Assessment September 2016
Monday, May 02, 2016
*** Zoonotic Potential
of CWD Prions: An Update Prion 2016 Tokyo ***
SCRAPIE AND CWD ZOONOSIS
PRION 2016 CONFERENCE
TOKYO
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
Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
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