CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE (CWD) funds disappearing
Federal funds have underwritten much of our chronic wasting disease surveillance for nearly 10 years. As we’re all aware, the federal government is searching for ways to cut spending, and CWD prevention and surveillance has been targeted.
Under a cooperative agreement with the USDA, we have been able to reimburse producers up to $50 per sample for their veterinary costs to meet the testing requirement, and pay them half the costs to double-fence their property when necessary. That agreement ended July 31 and will not be renewed.
In addition, USDA has picked up the laboratory fees for surveillance testing. Although Congress has yet to approve USDA’s budget for FY 2012, which began Oct. 1, we have been informed that the CWD budget is likely to be cut to $1.925 million, down from $13.9 million. That has eliminated federal indemnity reimbursements for veterinary costs charged to owners for submitting tissues for CWD testing, funding for state wildlife surveillance, research at the National Wildlife Research Center – and paying lab fees for CWD tests after Dec 31. Testing to confirm positive screening tests would still be covered.
We have been talking with producer groups about how to proceed with the program in light of these changes. Stay tuned. In the meantime, if you have questions, contact Dr. Richard Bourie, 608-224-4886, richard.bourie@wi.gov.
http://datcp.wi.gov/Animals/
CDC BUDGET (SEE WASTE AT CDC)
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=61B80CA8D8292D96E2CCB37F37557F9F
PRION TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY RESEARCH FUNDING U.S.A.
COMPARE TO USA PRION FUNDING 2011
"which includes the ___elimination___ of Prion activities ($5,473,000),"
All Other Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases CDC‘s FY 2012 request of $52,658,000 for all other emerging and zoonotic infectious disease activities is a decrease of $13,607,000 below the FY 2010 level, which includes the elimination of Prion activities ($5,473,000), a reduction for other cross-cutting infectious disease activities, and administrative savings. These funds support a range of critical emerging and zoonotic infectious disease programs such Lyme Disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Special Pathogens, as well as other activities described below.
http://www.cdc.gov/fmo/topic/Budget%20Information/appropriations_budget_form_pdf/FY2012_CDC_CJ_Final.pdf
Monday, June 27, 2011
Zoonotic Potential of CWD: Experimental Transmissions to Non-Human Primates
http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/06/zoonotic-potential-of-cwd-experimental.html
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Chronic Wasting Disease DOI: 10.1007/128_2011_159 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/05/chronic-wasting-disease-doi.html
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Evidence for distinct CWD strains in experimental CWD in ferrets
http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/09/evidence-for-distinct-cwd-strains-in.html
UPDATED DATA ON 2ND CWD STRAIN
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
CWD PRION CONGRESS SEPTEMBER 8-11 2010
http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2010/09/cwd-prion-2010.html
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
White-tailed deer are susceptible to the agent of sheep scrapie by intracerebral inoculation
http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/10/white-tailed-deer-are-susceptible-to.html
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
CWD Update 102 October 20, 2011
http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2011/10/cwd-update-102-october-20-2011.html
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
There Is No Safe Dose of Prions
http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2011/08/there-is-no-safe-dose-of-prions.html
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
All Clinically-Relevant Blood Components Transmit Prion Disease following a Single Blood Transfusion: A Sheep Model of vCJD
http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2011/08/all-clinically-relevant-blood.html
Editorial: The European Response to BSE: A Success Story
EFSA Journal 2011; 9(9):e991 [3 pp.]. doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2011.e991 Author Herbert Budka, Member and Vice-Chair of EFSA's Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ)Contact
editor-in-chief.efsajournal@efsa.europa.eu
Type: Editorial Published: 02 September 2011 Affiliation: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Parma, Italy Article
snip...
Moreover, transmission experiments to non-human primates suggest that some TSE agents in addition to Classical BSE prions in cattle (namely L-type Atypical BSE, Classical BSE in sheep, transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) and chronic wasting disease (CWD) agents) might have zoonotic potential.
snip...
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/e991.htm?emt=1
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/e991.pdf
see full text and more here ;
Monday, October 10, 2011
EFSA Journal 2011 The European Response to BSE: A Success Story
http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2011/10/efsa-journal-2011-european-response-to.html
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Terry Singeltary Sr. on the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Public Health Crisis, Date aired: 27 Jun 2011
http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2011/08/terry-singeltary-sr-on-creutzfeldt.html
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