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Georgia First Positive Case of Chronic Wasting Disease Confirmed

Georgia First Positive Case of Chronic Wasting Disease Confirmed


First Positive Case of Chronic Wasting Disease Confirmed In Georgia

Social Circle, GA Thursday, January 23, 2025, 14:30 pm The Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) has confirmed through the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories that a hunter-harvested deer sampled for routine surveillance in Lanier County has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). This is the first case of CWD detected in Georgia. The sample was taken from a two-and-a-half-year-old male white-tailed deer harvested on private property. Immediately following the positive confirmation, WRD staff implemented the CWD Response Plan and are taking additional samples from the area.

“I want to assure our hunters that deer hunting will continue to thrive in Georgia, despite this current discovery," said Walter Rabon, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. “Working together with our hunters and all Georgians, we will manage CWD and maintain healthy deer herds.” 

What is Being Done? The DNR CWD Response Plan is in effect and a CWD Management Area is established. The CWD Management Area includes the county where the positive sample was found and any county that touches a 5-mile radius around the location of the positive sample. The current CWD Management Area includes Lanier and Berrien counties. 

The critical next step is to determine the geographic extent and prevalence rate in that Management Area (i.e., how far it has spread and what percent of deer have CWD). The Department will do that with landowner cooperation through “cluster sampling” in the immediate area. 

What is CWD? CWD was first discovered in 1967 in Fort Collins, Colorado. CWD is a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk, and moose caused by infectious, misfolded proteins called prions. There are no current treatments or preventative vaccines.

CWD in deer, elk ,and/or moose has been reported in 36 states and 3 Canadian provinces: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming as well as Canadian provinces Alberta, Quebec, and Saskatchewan.

There is no known transmission of CWD to humans. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that hunters harvesting a deer, elk, or moose from an area where CWD is known to be present have their animal tested for CWD prior to consuming the meat and do not consume the meat if the animal tests positive. How You Can Help Prevent Spread

Don’t move live deer. Moving live deer is the greatest risk for introducing CWD to new areas. Dispose of carcasses properly and don’t bring whole carcasses into Georgia from out of state or move whole carcasses outside the CWD Management Area. Any carcass parts you don’t intend to consume should be left on the property the deer was killed, sent to a landfill, or buried. Report sick or abnormal deer to your nearest WRD Game Management Office. The Georgia DNR with its partners – Georgia Department of Agriculture and the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study – will continue to update the public as more information becomes available.

For more information on Chronic Wasting Disease, visit https://georgiawildlife.com/CWD

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Media Contact: Kaitlin Goode, kaitlin.goode@dnr.ga.gov912-346-8280

https://gadnr.org/first-positive-case-chronic-wasting-disease-confirmed-georgia

First Positive Case of Chronic Wasting Disease Confirmed In Georgia Thursday, January 23, 2025, 14:30 pm The sample was taken from a two-and-a-half-year-old male white-tailed deer harvested on private property.

https://gadnr.org/first-positive-case-chronic-wasting-disease-confirmed-georgia


SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 07, 2013

Georgia House Bill 1043 and Chronic Wasting Disease CWD 

From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. 

Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2013 12:33 PM 

To: jon.burns@house.ga.gov Cc: stephen.allison@house.ga.gov ; jimmy.pruett@house.ga.gov ; sharon.beasley-teague@house.ga.gov ; rbruce5347@aol.com ; pam.dickerson@house.ga.gov ; emory.dunahoo@house.ga.gov ; earl@ehrhart.4emm.com ; david.knight@house.ga.gov ; tommccall@bellsouth.net ; john.meadows@house.ga.gov ; jay.roberts@house.ga.gov ; jason.shaw@house.ga.gov ; jason.spencer@house.ga.gov ; al.williams@house.ga.gov 

Subject: Georgia House Bill 1043 and Chronic Wasting Disease CWD 

Greetings Honorable Representatives of the House, Game, Fish, & Parks, 

I wish to submit some recent science about chronic wasting disease cwd from the Prion2013 congressional abstracts. I lost my mother to hvCJD ‘confirmed’, and have been following the mad cow follies for almost 16 years daily. sadly, cwd is just another part of those follies. I have studied and kept up with these follies daily for almost 16 years, as a layperson. I believe that when officials are making decisions, they need all the scientific information available to make sound decisions. many times this does not happen due to the industries involved and politics and greed there from. So, I send this science on the cwd tse prion disease in good faith. 

TO date, with the limited CWD testing in Georgia, CWD has not been detected. does not mean it is not already there. BUT, if you approve Bill 1043, the chances of CWD being introduced into your state goes up greatly. Inactivation of the TSE Prion disease Chronic Wasting Disease CWD, and other TSE prion disease, these TSE prions know no borders. these TSE prions know no age restrictions. The TSE prion disease survives ashing to 600 degrees celsius, that’s around 1112 degrees farenheit. you cannot cook the TSE prion disease out of meat. you can take the ash and mix it with saline and inject that ash into a mouse, and the mouse will go down with TSE. Prion Infected Meat-and-Bone Meal Is Still Infectious after Biodiesel Production as well. the TSE prion agent also survives Simulated Wastewater Treatment Processes. IN fact, you should also know that the TSE Prion agent will survive in the environment for years, if not decades. you can bury it and it will not go away. The TSE agent is capable of infected your water table i.e. Detection of protease-resistant cervid prion protein in water from a CWD-endemic area. it’s not your ordinary pathogen you can just cook it out and be done with. that’s what’s so worrisome about Iatrogenic mode of transmission, a simple autoclave will not kill this TSE prion agent. Snip…

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