Guest opinion: The ballot box is the worst place to make decisions on mountain lions October 5, 2024 Colorado VailDaily.com, Jerry Apker 

... There is truth that mountain lions, like many other predators, may kill sickly or injured deer more frequently than healthy animals. You should be suspicious of the wishful thinking that this means lions will control the spread of chronic wasting disease. These advocate scientists concealed that this idea has been tested in Colorado and Wyoming. Lion predation on deer had no effect on chronic wasting disease spread or prevalence ..,

Unique deer scraping behavior can spread CWD August 22, 2024 The Wildlife Society

... Chronic wasting disease ... One likely indirect CWD transmission pathway in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is through their scraping behavior ... To create the scrapes, the ungulates use their front hooves to clear a circular area on the ground of debris and duft, usually next to a tree. Then, they urinate on the area, rub their face on it and lick a low-hanging branch ...

Biodetection of an odor signature in white-tailed deer associated with infection by chronic wasting disease prions 2024 PlosOne

...  dogs were trained to detect and discriminate CWD infected individuals from non-infected deer in a laboratory setting. Dogs were tested with novel panels of fecal samples demonstrating the dogs’ ability to generalize a learned odor profile to novel odor samples based on infection status...  These results indicated that canine biodetectors can discriminate the specific odors emitted from the feces of non-infected versus CWD infected white-tailed deer as well as generalizing the learned response to other tissues collected from infected individuals. These findings suggest that the health status of wild and farmed cervids can be evaluated non-invasively for CWD ...

Biodetection data: Using odor signature in white-tailed deer associated with infection by Chronic Wasting Disease prions 2024 U.S. Department of Agriculture

...  This study involved training canine biodetectors in 2021-2022, to identify populations and/or individuals infected with CWD via detection of feces odors. Dogs were trained to detect and discriminate CWD infected white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from non-infected white-tailed deer, obtained from targeted removal events conducted throughout the United States and several counties in western Tennessee, in a laboratory setting at the National Wildlife Research Center in Fort Collins, Colorado...

How to control chronic wasting disease June 22, 2024  American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

...  if you let CWD fester for any length of time, then culling probably won’t work ...  selective breeding might work like the Covid vaccine: It’s still possible to get a breakthrough infection, but it’s had a huge impact on slowing the disease down and minimizing transmission... even if we get an effective vaccine, we’d also need to figure out a good way to distribute it ...

Predicting chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer at the county scale using machine learning June 22, 2024 Nature

... We predicted CWD incidence by county using CWD surveillance data depicting white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in 16 eastern and midwestern US states ... disagreements in positives and negatives between the CWD Prediction Web App predictions and the on-the-ground surveillance data one year later underscore the need for state wildlife agency professionals to use a layered modeling approach ...

Detection of Chronic Wasting Disease Prions in Prairie Soils from Endemic Regions 2024 Environmental Science & Technology

...  In the prairie area of South Saskatchewan where the CWD prevalence rate in male mule deer is greater than 70%, 75% of the soil samples tested were positive, while in the low-prevalence prairie region of North Dakota (11% prevalence in male mule deer), none of the soils contained prion seeding activity...

As 'Zombie' Deer Disease Spreads, Scientists Look for Answers June 6, 2024, Yale E360

... predators and scavengers can spread the disease. “This is one of the most concerning aspects of CWD,” said Larsen. “Many species can be exposed to CWD prions, and we don’t know how those prions will evolve and which mammals those prions will be able to infect.”  [Peter Larsen, an associate professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota]   ...

Chronic wasting disease alters the movement behavior and habitat use of mule deer during clinical stages of infection 2024, Ecology and Evolution

... using GPS collar data from two distinct populations collared in central Wyoming, USA during 2018–2022 ... CWD and predation were the leading causes of mortality during our study (32/91 deaths attributed to CWD and 27/91 deaths attributed to predation). Deer infected with CWD moved slower and used lower elevation areas closer to rivers in the months preceding death compared with uninfected deer ...

Classical BSE dismissed as the cause of CWD in Norwegian red deer despite strain similarities between both prion agents 2024 Veterinary Research

... The first case of CWD in a Norwegian red deer ... the red deer glycoprofile was different from the Norwegian CWD reindeer and CWD moose and from North American CWD ... These results suggest that the Norwegian CWD red deer case was infected with a previously unknown CWD type ...

Study suggests chronic wasting disease unlikely to move from animals to people May 17, 2024 Medical Xpress on MSN

...  from National Institutes of Health scientists and published in Emerging Infectious Diseases ... suggests there is a substantial species barrier preventing transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) from cervids—deer, elk and moose—to people...

North American Wildlife Agency CWD Testing and Ancillary Data (2000 – 2022)  2024 ecommons.cornell.edu

     The North American Wildlife Agency CWD Testing and Ancillary Data (2000-2022) dataset (“Dataset”) represents epidemiological, population, ecological, and anthropogenic data related to chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in 16 US states (“Administrative Areas”) in North America...

FWC issues executive order with new CWD regulations for 2024-25 deer season April 17, 2024 Florida Fish and Wildlife  News

... the FWC issued a new executive order outlining regulations designed to increase sampling and slow the spread of chronic wasting disease in Florida deer. Existing regulations pertaining to the establishment of the CWD Management Zone, prohibition of rehabilitating or releasing injured or orphaned deer, feeding restrictions, and prohibition of exporting high-risk parts remain in effect...

Two Hunters from the Same Lodge Afflicted with Sporadic CJD: Is Chronic Wasting Disease to Blame?  - Neurology, 2024

... In 2022, a 72-year-old man with a history of consuming meat from a CWD-infected deer population presented with rapid-onset confusion and aggression. His friend, who had also eaten venison from the same deer population, recently died of CJD, raising concerns about a potential link between CWD and human prion disease ...

     Man believes wife’s death could be related to deer meat  December 5, 2021 Louisiana, Alexandria KALB-TV

... An Ouachita Parish woman died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in 2020. It left her husband searching for answers and a year later, he discovered her symptoms were similar to a disease found in deer called Chronic Wasting Disease...

INHS survey studies Illinois hunters' beliefs about controlling disease in deer populations April 3, 2024 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

... The occurrence of CWD cases in deer is expanding, as the disease was found in 10 Illinois counties in 2012 and 19 counties in 2022... hunters’ perceptions of risk of CWD to both deer and humans have dropped slightly over the years.  “The disease is no longer news, and people just don’t see the risk anymore,” ...

How to control control chronic wasting disease April 1, 2024, Knowable Magazine

... animals with those good gene variants are significantly less likely to get CWD, but they’re likely not completely immune. We’ve been putting more of the animals with good variants out into the farm and can see that fewer of them seem to be getting infected by the time they’re hunted ...

Whitetail deer research into the home stretch March 1, 2024 West Virginia, WV MetroNews

... “Hunter harvest is the leading source of mortality across all three study areas. We’ve had about 160 mortalities recorded and about 60 of those were hunter harvest. In the central and western study areas hunter harvest has been the highest source mortality, but it’s actually second in Hampshire County behind chronic wasting disease,” ...

Plants can uptake CWD-causing prions from soil in the lab. What happens if they are eaten?

February 22, 2024 Minnesota,  University of Minnesota CIDRAP

...   published in iScience in December ... They demonstrated that alfalfa, barley, and Arabidopsis thaliana, a small plant from the mustard family called thale cress and other names, all accumulated sufficient prions from contaminated soil in their above-ground tissues to cause mice that ingested the plant tissues to develop prion disease...

Unraveling the Mystery: How Deer Poop Holds the Key to Tackling Chronic Wasting Disease February 21, 2024 Pennsylvania, Vet Candy

... By collecting and analyzing samples from both CWD-positive and -negative deer, scientists have uncovered a crucial link between gut bacteria and the presence of the disease. Anna Kashina, a professor of biochemistry at Penn Vet, underscores the significance of this discovery: "For the first time, we have a noninvasive tool for detecting CWD and gaining insights into its biology."  The study, published in Microbiology Spectrum ...

Looking Backwards to Know Where to Go: Leveraging Historical Data to Guide Chronic Wasting Disease Management February, 2024 Wildlife Management Institute

... Guided by the findings of the survey, researchers are currently working with state wildlife agency partners to create an analytical framework that would allow for within and between-state comparisons of the efficacy of various harvest regulations. To date, researchers have collected harvest records and regulations from six states spanning the years 2001- 2022 and are in the process of collecting records from two more...

Understanding chronic wasting disease in deer February 12, 2024 Phys.org on MSN

... The researchers found that several types of gut bacteria could differentiate between CWD-positive and -negative animals. Their paper "Prospective fecal microbiomic biomarkers for chronic wasting disease" was published in Microbiology Spectrum...

Study examines strategies to prevent fatal deer disease re-entering NY January 30, 2024 New York, Olean Times Herald

... Deer hunters were more likely to be swayed by social media messages about the potential risks of chronic wasting disease if they came from a source they believed aligned with their own views and values, according to a new study...

Sporadic cases of chronic wasting disease in old moose–an epidemiological study

- Journal of General Virology, 2024

...The results of our study show that the CWD cases detected so far in Nordic moose have a different epidemiology compared to CWD cases reported from North America and in Norwegian reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus). The results support the hypothesis that these cases are less contagious or not contagious between live animals under field conditions ...

Assessing Different Chronic Wasting Disease Training Aids for Use with Detection Dogs 2024 Animals

... This study examined different materials, incubation times, and incubation temperatures for training aids to identify the aid that both maximizes the dogs’ detection performance and is practical to use. Based on these criteria, the best-performing aid was made of cotton and was incubated with fecal matter from CWD-positive deer for 24 h at 21 °C...

Expanding CWD disease surveillance options using environmental contamination at deer signposts 2024 Ecological Solutions and Evidence

... Using real-time quaking-induced conversion (RT-QuIC), we detected prion seeding activity in 20% of the soil and 41% of the licking branches of the scrape sites within the CWD study area, and in 25% of the soil and 11% of the licking branches of scrape sites sampled at the edge of the known CWD distribution.

5. Our data show there is environmental prion contamination at scrape sites. This supports the idea that scrapes could serve as early warning sentinel sites for CWD surveillance through testing soil and licking branches for prion seeding activity, especially in areas with limited access to harvested deer samples...

Nasal bots carry relevant titers of CWD prions in naturally infected white-tailed deer January 8, 2024 The EMBO Journal

... Considering that cervids are commonly afflicted by nasal bot flies, we tested the potential of these parasites to transmit CWD... These parasites efficiently infect CWD-susceptible mice in ways suggestive of high infectivity titers... We show that both soils and plants exposed to CWD-infected bot homogenates displayed seeding activity ...

With chronic wasting disease deer cases increasing, NC pushes testing  December 7, 2023 North Carolina, The Fayetteville Observer

... North Carolina wildlife officials are reminding hunters to be careful when handling deer carcasses and to get harvested animals tested...  stresses to hunters the importance of taking precautions when transporting or disposing of deer carcasses." ...

Disease phenotype of classical sheep scrapie is changed upon experimental passage through white-tailed deer - PLoS pathogens, 2023

...  The purpose of this study was to test the susceptibility of sheep to challenge with the scrapie agent after passage through white-tailed deer (WTD scrapie)...  Multiple lines of evidence suggest a phenotype switch when No. 13–7 scrapie prions are passaged through deer. This represents one example of interspecies transmission of prions resulting in the emergence or selection of new strain properties that could confound disease eradication and control efforts...

MSU scientists study effects of supplemental feeding on chronic wasting disease November 21, 2023 Mississippi State University

... “The relative risk comparison showed that almost three times more deer visited sample areas around feeders than equivalent areas within food plots. The more deer that frequent a small area, the greater the risk for CWD to spread through direct and indirect contact between those deer,” Demarais said. “The conclusion is that deer at feeders are more at risk for catching CWD from other infected deer than at food plots.”...

Plan to EAT that deer you caught? New research suggests CWD could spread to humans more easily than thought November 16, 2023 Idaho, KIVI-TV

... mashed up brain from a CWD [chronic wasting disease] infected deer that was injected directly into the brains of those mice ...  the humanized mice eventually -- over years -- became infected with CWD and could spread it through their feces...

Nebraska study found new method to examine spread of COVID in deer November 1, 2023 Omaha.com

... Earlier in the pandemic, researchers had worried that the coronavirus could spread to animals, mutate and spill back into people.  That has not, however, proved a big threat, Loy said. Recent work indicates there were introductions of the virus from humans to deer, which was followed by circulation among deer but only a couple of cases in which the virus passed from deer to humans...

MSU researchers pioneer new method to detect Chronic Wasting Disease October 31, 2023 Mississippi State University

... “As bucks chew on overhanging branches and urinate on the scrape, prions—abnormally formed proteins—are released if a deer is CWD positive,” Demarais said. “Camera traps show us that, on average, every scrape is visited by 12 bucks, each of which may or may not have CWD.” ... “We wanted to see if we could use scrapes as a sentinel, an early warning signal that did not require sampling an individual deer,” ..,

U of M Study: Chronic Wasting Disease could spread through deer processing equipment October 24, 2023 Michigan, Northern News Now

... New research from the University of Minnesota finds Chronic Wasting Disease can be spread through equipment touched by contaminated meat.  “Knives and cutting boards and meat grinders can be contaminated with prions from venison that is contaminated from CWD,” said Tiffany Wolf, a professor with the University of Minnesota...

Heterogeneity of pathological prion protein accumulation in the brain of moose (Alces alces) from Norway, Sweden and Finland with chronic wasting disease - Veterinary Research, 2023

... In 2016, chronic wasting disease (CWD) gained great importance at European level due to the first disease detection in a wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in Norway. The subsequent intensive CWD surveillance launched in cervids resulted in the detection of CWD in moose (Alces alces), with 11 cases in Norway, 3 in Finland and 4 in Sweden...  the different types of PrPSc deposits found among moose demonstrate strong variations between the cases, supporting the postulation that these cases could carry multiple strains of CWD...

Are rapid tests and confirmatory western blot used for cattle and small ruminants TSEs reliable tools for the diagnosis of Chronic Wasting Disease in Europe? - PloS one, 2023

... The first case of CWD in Europe was detected in a Norwegian reindeer in 2016, followed later by two CWD cases in Norwegian moose... Our results show that all the methods applied were able to detect the CWD positive samples even if differences in analytical sensitivity were clearly observed. Although this study could not assess the test accuracy, due to the small number of samples available, it is conceivable that the rapid and confirmatory diagnostic systems applied for CWD surveillance in Northern Europe are reliable tools...

A microfluidic biosensor for the diagnosis of chronic wasting disease - Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2023

...  chronic wasting disease (CWD) ... is caused by a misfolded prion protein...  the biosensor was 10 times more sensitive than ELISA, which is the currently approved CWD diagnostic test. The biosensor’s specificity and selectivity were confirmed using known negative RPLN samples, a negative control antibody ...

Logging, linear features, and human infrastructure shape the spatial dynamics of wolf predation on an ungulate neonate - Ecological Applications, 2023

... In contrast to the 'human shield hypothesis' that posits prey use human-modified areas as refuge, wolves killed fawns closer to residential buildings than expected based on spatial availability. Fawns were also killed within recently-logged areas more than expected. Concealment cover was higher at kill sites than random sites, suggesting wolves use senses other than vision, likely olfaction, to detect hidden fawns. Wolves showed strong selection for hunting along linear features, and kill sites were also closer to linear features than expected...

Spatiotemporal epizootiology of chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin deer.  2023.  Ecosphere, 2023

... . The rate of prevalence increase over time is higher in more forested ecoregions and in males (0.48 vs. 0.43) but similar in females (0.43 vs. 0.37) and yearlings (0.44 vs. 0.39)... prevalence may be affected by deer management practices that favor higher deer abundance and more mature males... The trajectory of CWD dynamics in Wisconsin suggests rapid growth in regional prevalence following introduction and increased spread across the landscape...

'A canary in the coal mine,' Chronic Wasting Disease prions found in Claiborne County June 22, 2023 Mississippi, The Natchez Democrat

... detection of CWD prions in a scrape located in Claiborne County on the Mississippi side of the river which was reported to Walsh this Tuesday. The finding comes from a Mississippi State University study on surveying for CWD in non-invasive ways...

New research shows that swallowed ticks could spread chronic wasting disease in wild deer June 22, 2023  Minnesota, Star Tribune

... University scientists from Wisconsin and Minnesota discovered single deer ticks (a.k.a. blacklegged ticks) in the wild, taken off the heads of CWD-infected deer, with enough disease-causing prions inside of them to spread the disease.  Hypothetically, a healthy deer could accidentally swallow one of those tainted ticks during social grooming ...

Ticks found to harbor and release prions of chronic wasting disease May 17, 2023, News Medical

... Overall, the study findings showed that infection-relevant loads of seeding substances are present in individual tick... a recent study published in the Scientific Reports Journal, researchers combined experimental tick feeding with tick evaluations from wild white-tailed deer to determine whether ticks may contain transmission-relevant amounts of chronic wasting disease associated prions ...

Ticks harbor and excrete chronic wasting disease prions - Scientific Reports, 2023

... Estimates revealed a median infectious dose range of 0.3–42.4 per tick, suggesting that ticks can take up transmission-relevant amounts of PrPCWD and may pose a CWD risk to cervids...

U of M researchers develop technique for rapid detection of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and CWD May 1, 2023 Minnesota, University of Minnesota

... The method will likely open a door for earlier treatment and mitigation of various diseases that affect humans, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and similar diseases that affect animals, such as chronic wasting disease (CWD).  Their new study is published in Nano Letters...

Monitoring of chronic wasting disease (CWD) - EFSA Journal, April, 2023

... The European Commission requested an analysis of the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) monitoring programme in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (9 January 2017–28 February 2022). Thirteen cases were detected in reindeer, 15 in moose and 3 in red deer. They showed two phenotypes, distinguished by the presence or absence of detectable disease‐associated normal cellular prion protein (PrP) in lymphoreticular tissues. CWD was detected for the first time in Finland, Sweden and in other areas of Norway...

Tonsil biopsy to detect chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) by immunohistochemistry - PloS one, 2023

...  The sensitivity of two-bite tonsil biopsy for detecting CWD by IHC was 72% overall. When the stage of infection was considered, the sensitivity was 92% for deer in late preclinical infection but only 55% for early preclinical infection...

About 600 wild deer to get GPS collars in southcentral Pennsylvania February 15, 2023 Erie Times-News

...  part of a research project involving Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) ...  “It will give us insight into the effects of CWD on Pennsylvania’s deer population.” ...

Canine detection of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in laboratory and field settings - Prion, 2023

... Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy that affects both freeranging and farmed cervid species, including mule deer, white-tailed deer, and elk ... We then trained the same dogs to search for CWD-positive faecal samples in a more naturalistic field setting. In the field, dogs found 8/11 CWD-positive samples and had an average false detection rate of 13%. These results suggest that dogs can be trained to differentiate CWD-positive faeces from CWD-negative faeces in both laboratory and field settings...

Longitudinal detection of prion shedding in nasal secretions of CWD-infected white-tailed deer - Journal of General Virology, 2023

... Rapid detection of CWD prions shed by live animals using minimally invasive methods remains an important need ...  The results of this study demonstrate nasal shedding of CWD prions that can be detected using minimally invasive nasal swab sampling and RT-QuIC analysis...

State wildlife agencies share how much they spend on CWD January 13, 2023 Outdoor News

... state wildlife agencies in 16 CWD-positive states spent $773,000 annually on disease management... A new peer-reviewed report published in the November/December 2022 issue of The Wildlife Professional starts to quantify these costs ...

Effect of legal regulation of supplemental feeding on space use of red deer in an area with chronic wasting disease 2023 Norway, European Journal of Wildlife 

... The ban on supplementary feeding had no effect on size of core areas or home ranges. Several potential factors can explain the overall weak effect of the ban on space use, including the use of agricultural fields by red deer, other anthropogenic feeding, and landscape topography. This study highlights that snow depth is the main factor determining space use during winter  ...

Monitoring CWD Gets Easier with Introduction of New Tool November 17, 2022 Tennessee, TN.gov

... The Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance (CWDA) recently developed three online, CWD information mapping tools to help document, track, and manage the spread of CWD: CWD in North America shows counties and wildlife management units in which CWD has been found in wild and/or captive cervid populations.   CWD-Related Hunting Regulations shows CWD-related hunting regulations, maps of CWD-positive areas, and the CWD regulatory status of each state and province.  Carcass Transport Regulations will help users discover regulations impacting the transport of cervid carcasses from one state/province to another. It includes import, export, and pass-through regulations for cervid carcasses for every state and province...

Diagnostic testing of chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) by RT-QuIC using multiple tissues  - PLOS ONE, 2022

... , we analyzed the presence of CWD prions in skin samples from two easily accessed locations (ear and belly) from 30 deceased white-tailed deer ... The diagnostic sensitivity of the ear and belly skin samples were both 95%, and the diagnostic specificity of the ear and belly skin were both 100%. Additionally, the location of the skin biopsy on the ear does not affect specificity or sensitivity. These results demonstrate the efficacy of CWD diagnosis with skin biopsies using RT-QuIC...

White-Tailed Deer are Susceptible to the Agent of Classical Sheep Scrapie after Experimental Oronasal Exposure 2022 The Journal of Infectious Diseases

... Classical scrapie is a prion disease of sheep and goats ... We inoculated WTD (n = 5)  ...with the classical scrapie agent from goats (n = 6)... All deer exposed to the agent of classical scrapie from sheep accumulated PrPSc. PrPSc was detected in lymphoid tissues at preclinical time points, and deer necropsied after 28 months post-inoculation had clinical signs, spongiform lesions, and widespread PrPSc in neural and lymphoid tissues...

Chronic Wasting Disease, Efficacy of secondary electric fences at preventing direct contact among white‐tailed deer - Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2022

... The majority of breaches occurred across the three‐strand‐fence. Our results suggest that no style of primary fence alone is sufficient to prevent direct contacts and that the addition of a secondary,

properly designed electric fence constructed along the primary fence of captive white‐tailed deer facilities could prevent direct contact between captive and free‐ranging deer...

Learning How Chronic Wasting Disease is Affecting Deer in Wisconsin April 29, 2022 Southwest Wisconsin CWD, Deer and Predator Study

...  staff evaluated 433 deer mortalities, and 141 deer were sent to the lab for a full necropsy ... Of all deer necropsied, 42% were CWD-positive ...  those with end-stage CWD infections. “You could see their bones jut out, especially around the ribs and hip. They lost muscle too ..,

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Cervids and the Consequences of a Mutable Protein Conformation

CJ Silva - ACS Omega, 2022

... The CWD prions can respond to selection pressures resulting in the emergence of new strain phenotypes. Annually, 11.5 million Americans hunt and harvest nearly 6 million deer, indicating that CWD is a potential threat to an important American food source. No tested CWD strain has been shown to be zoonotic. However, this may not be true for emerging strains ...

SARS-CoV-2 has not emerged in roe, red or fallow deer in Germany or Austria during the COVID 19 pandemic 2022. bioRxiv

... Spillover of SARS-CoV-2 to North American white tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) has been documented. We evaluated pre and pandemic exposure of German and Austrian deer species using a SARS-CoV-2 pseudoneutralization assay. In stark contrast to North American white tailed deer, we found no evidence of SARS-CoV-2 exposure...

Apparent stability masks underlying change in a mule deer herd with unmanaged chronic wasting disease January, 2022 Communications Biology

... High apparent prevalence (~30%) since at least 2005 ... Despite stable appearances, prion disease nonetheless impairs adult survival and likely resilience in this deer herd, limiting its potential for growth despite refuge from hunter harvest and favorable habitat and winter conditions...

Supporting adaptive management with ecological forecasting: chronic wasting disease in the Jackson Elk Herd 2021 Ecosphere

... . Initial forecasts suggested CWD may reach a mean prevalence in the population of 12%, but uncertainty in this forecast is large and we cannot rule out a mean forecasted prevalence as high as 20%. Using recruitment rates observed during the last two

decades, the model predicted that a CWD prevalence of 7% in females would cause the population growth rate (λ) to drop below 1, resulting in population declines even when female harvest was zero...

Spatio-temporal changes in chronic wasting disease risk in wild deer during 14 years of surveillance in Alberta, Canada  2021  Preventive Veterinary

... We found no evidence that the 3-year herd reduction program conducted immediately after CWD was first detected affected the rate at which CWD grew over the course of the invasion. Risk of deer being CWD-positive was the highest in animals taken near small stream drainages and on soils with low organic carbon content in the early period, whereas risk became highest in areas of agriculture especially when far from large river drainages where deer often concentrate in isolated woody patches....  Our results indicate that a targeted-removal program will remove more CWD positive animals compared to hunter harvest...

Generation of human chronic wasting disease in transgenic mice September 26, 2021 Acta Neuropathologica Communications  

... Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is the most contagious of all prion diseases ... Our study, using PMCA and animal bioassays, provides the first evidence that CWD PrPSc can cross the species barrier to convert human PrPC into infectious PrPSc that can produce bona fide prion disease when inoculated into humanized transgenic mice...

Selective Breeding for Disease Resistant PRNP Variants to Manage Chronic Wasting Disease in Farmed Whitetail Deer  N Haley, R Donner, K Merrett, M Miller, K Senior - 2021

... We developed a selective breeding program for farmed white-tailed deer in a high prevalence CWD-endemic area which focused on reducing frequencies

of highly susceptible PRNP variants and introducing animals with less-susceptible variants. With the use of newly developed primers, we found that breeding followed predictable Mendelian inheritance, and early data support our project’s utility in reducing CWD prevalence. This project represents a novel approach to CWD management, with future efforts building on these findings...

University Of Wyoming Researchers Find CWD Changes Mule Deer Genetics August 31, 2021 Wyoming Public Media

... new research ... researchers found a link between areas where CWD has been in mule deer herds the longest and how common a genetic mutation which slows down disease progression, known as the 225F allele ...

UW Researchers Lead Study of Chronic Wasting Disease in Mule Deer  August 11, 2021 Wyoming, University of Wyoming

... investigate the relationship between chronic wasting disease and a mutation at codon 225 of the mule deer prion protein gene that slows disease progression,” Ernest explains. “We found that individuals with the ‘slow’ 225F allele were less likely to test positive for chronic wasting disease, and the 225F allele was more common in herds exposed to chronic wasting disease longer. We also found that, in the past two decades, the 225F allele frequency increased more in herds with higher chronic wasting disease prevalence.”... [Read the research]

North American and Norwegian Chronic Wasting Disease prions exhibit different potential for interspecies transmission and zoonotic risk. 2021 - The Journal of Infectious Disease

... By comparing the conversion efficiency of CWD in a second PMCA round, we observed that CWD prions from North American cervids were able to successfully convert human PrPC. The best results were obtained with white-tailed deer, mule deer and to a lower extent with elk ...

Democrats call for Board of Animal Health president to resign over CWD June 30, 2021 Minnesota, Bring Me The News

... Several Democrats in the Minnesota House of Representatives are calling for the president of the Minnesota Board of Animal Health to resign over his handling of chronic wasting disease...  first discovered in a farmed deer in Minnesota in 2002 and a wild animal in 2010 ...

Second passage of chronic wasting disease of mule deer to sheep by intracranial inoculation compared to classical scrapie.  May, 2021.   Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation

... chronic wasting disease (CWD) ...  We compared the disease phenotype of sheep-adapted CWD to classical scrapie in sheep. We inoculated sheep intracranially with brain homogenate from first-passage mule deer CWD in sheep ... Our data suggest that the phenotype of CWD in sheep is indistinguishable from some strains of scrapie in sheep ...

Research team finds additional CWD prions at dump site of Beltrami County deer farm May 20, 2021 Minnesota, Duluth News Tribune

... University of Minnesota researchers using forensic science techniques has documented the presence of prions that cause chronic wasting disease at a remote Beltrami County site where a nearby deer farm discarded white-tailed deer carcasses ...

Detection of chronic wasting disease in mule and white-tailed deer by RT-QuIC analysis of outer ear - Scientific Reports, 2021

... we have tested a more easily accessed specimen, ear pinna punches, using an improved RT-QuIC assay involving iron oxide magnetic extraction to detect CWD infections in asymptomatic mule and white-tailed deer... These results provide evidence that RT-QuIC analysis of ear pinna punches may be a useful approach to detecting CWD infections in cervids...

Hunting Pressure Modulates Prion Infection Risk in Mule Deer Herds, 2020 Colorado,  Journal of Wildlife Diseases In-Press.

... Across 12 areas in Colorado studied between 2002−2018, those with the largest declines in annual hunting license numbers (pressure) showed the largest increases in the proportion of infected adult (≥2–yr-old) male deer killed by hunters (prevalence); prevalence trends were comparatively flat in most areas where license numbers had been maintained or increased... Our findings suggest that harvesting mule deer with sufficient hunting pressure might control chronic wasting disease—especially when prevalence is low ..,

Very low oral exposure to prions of brain or saliva origin can transmit chronic wasting disease  ND Denkers, CE Hoover, KA Davenport… - PloS one, 2020

... We orally inoculated white-tailed deer with either single or multiple divided doses of prions ...These studies suggest that the CWD minimum infectious dose approximates 100 to 300 ng CWD-positive brain (or saliva equivalent), and that CWD infection appears to conform more with a threshold than a cumulative dose dynamic...

Large‐scale prion protein genotyping in Canadian caribou populations and potential impact on chronic wasting disease susceptibility August 2020, MI Arifin, A Staskevicius, SY Shim, YH Huang… - Molecular Ecology

... Reindeer carrying at least one allele encoding for asparagine (138NN or 138SN) are less susceptible to clinical CWD upon infection by natural routes, with the majority of prions limited to extraneural tissues...

Texas A&M Researchers Developing First Oral Anthrax Vaccine For Livestock, Wildlife August 11, 2020 Texas A&M University

...  recently published the results of a pilot study in Nature ... If successful, they will have developed the first effective oral vaccine against anthrax for wildlife. “The preliminary results showed that this concept has potential, so now we are starting up a deer study ...

An empirical analysis of hunter response to chronic wasting disease in Alberta

JK Pattison-Williams, L Xie, WL Adamowicz, M Pybus… - Human Dimensions of …, 2020

... Results indicated that hunters are continuing to apply to hunt mule deer in areas with CWD and this relationship is not statistically impacted by the increasing prevalence of CWD. This outcome may be because CWD prevalence in Alberta is relatively low (but increasing), which is consistent with the literature indicating that few hunters avoid CWD zones until prevalence increases dramatically...

The Search for Genetic Clues to Determine Chronic Wasting Disease Susceptibility June 18, 2020 USDA.gov 

... In March 2020, Texas A&M published a paper ... was able to identify highly susceptible animals with a greater than 80 percent accuracy rate by analyzing DNA samples from 807 farmed white-tailed deer taken from across the United States between 2014 and 2018...

Novel Approaches to Fight Prion Diseases  S Thapa - 2020

... After challenging the animals with CWD prions intraperitoneally, we found that all vaccinated groups had longer survival times than the CpG control group. Interestingly, the Mmo-immunized group revealed that survival was extended by 60%. We also observed 28.4% and 24.1% prolongation in Dmo and Ddi groups, respectively. Our preliminary study in reindeer showed substantial humoral immune response induced by Mdi and Ddi, and the sera from the Ddi-vaccinated reindeer significantly reduced CWD prions in a cell culture model. Taken together, this study describes potential vaccine candidates against CWD...

New breakthrough may help cure prion disease May 6, 2020 Massachusetts, News Medical

... fatal diseases caused by prions - chronic wasting disease in deer ... if you catch it early enough, if you pull out one side of the square, the amyloid structure can't double. Chaperones prevent the disease by preventing it from doubling in that first round... In a new paper in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology by Tricia Serio ...

Accurate Genomic Predictions for Chronic Wasting Disease in US White-Tailed Deer  CM Seabury, DL Oldeschulte, EK Bhattarai, D Legare… - G3: Genes, Genomes …, 2020

... we demonstrate that both differential susceptibility to CWD, and natural variation in disease progression, are moderately to highly heritable (h2 = 0.337 ± 0.079-0.637 ± 0.070) among farmed U.S. white-tailed deer, and that loci other than PRNP are involved. Genome-wide association analyses using 123,987 quality filtered SNPs for a geographically diverse cohort of 807 farmed U.S. white-tailed deer (n = 284 CWD positive; n = 523 CWD non-detect) confirmed the prion gene (PRNP; G96S) as a large-effect risk locus ...

A Genetic Predisposition to Chronic Wasting Disease in the Reindeer Rangifer tarandus in the Northern European Part of Russia  MV Kholodova, AI Baranova, IA Mizin, DV Panchenko… - Biology Bulletin, 2019

... It has been noted that due to the predominance of PrP genotypes with serine in codon 138 (138SS), which are associated with increased susceptibility to CWD, and the detection of this disease in reindeer, moose, and red deer in Scandinavia, there exists a real danger that CWD will spread among the reindeer inhabiting the European part of Russia...

In Vitro detection of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) prions in semen and reproductive tissues of white tailed deer bucks (Odocoileus virginianus).  C Kramm, R Gomez-Gutierrez, C Soto, G Telling… - PloS one, 2019

... we described the detection of CWD prions in semen and sexual tissues of WTD [white-tailed deer] bucks ... Our findings reveal the presence of CWD prions in semen and sexual tissues of prion infected WTD bucks. Future studies will be necessary to determine whether sexual contact and/or artificial inseminations are plausible means of CWD transmission in susceptible animal species...

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Prion Strains December 12, 2019 Minnesota, Video Below

The CIDRAP CWD Resource Center hosted Dr. Debbie McKenzie as she presented a webinar on prions, CWD strains, and potential implications for the species barrier. 

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Chronic Wasting Disease, Genome BC Funds Crucial Research to Combat an Emerging Deer Disease in British Columbia October 7, 2024, Canada Newswire

...During this hunting season, the project is working with hunters to collect samples that will be used in the research. "This issue affects so many communities and it unites us in our desire to protect healthy cervid populations. Hunters, trappers and Indigenous communities are important partners in this project," says Dr. Byers. "The data we get from the samples they share with us will be used to study potential paths of disease spread and help inform management decisions."...

Texas has record number of CWD cases October 2, 2024 Fredericksburg Standard

... Chronic Wasting Disease ... has been detected in Texas deer since 2012. Last year saw 153 positive cases in the state, and the number of cases this year reached 387 in August ... Texas Parks and Wildlife has detected CWD in 31 of Texas’ 254 counties and 34 captive breeding facilities..,

DWR warns hunters of chronic wasting disease October 2, 2024 Utah, KPCW

... The first case in Utah was discovered in 2002 and since then, more than 260 mule deer and six elk have tested positive for the disease in the state..,

CWD deer in Missouri 2024: These new counties had infected deer October 2, 2024 KSDK

... Nearly 20 counties around Missouri experienced their first case of an always-fatal deer disease over the past year ...The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) recently announced chronic wasting disease (CWD) had been found in 18 new counties...

The Missouri Department of Conservation is providing freezers for voluntary CWD sampling in the St. Louis region October 1, 2024 Warren County Record

... To make it easier for deer hunters to have their deer tested for Chronic Wasting Disease, the Missouri Department of Conservation has deployed deer head drop-off sites in six counties in the St. Louis region. Each site has a freezer that will preserve the samples, which will be picked up by MDC staff for CWD testing...

Help Prevent Chronic Wasting Disease in New Hampshire September 26, 2024 New Hampshire Fish and Game

... In 2018, a red deer from a captive facility in Quebec tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). This remains the closest confirmed case of CWD to the New Hampshire border. Movement of captive cervids (members of the deer family including moose, deer, elk, and caribou, as well as any species of captive deer) remains the number one threat in the spread of CWD ...

ADFG On Hunters Preventing Spread Of Chronic Wasting Disease September 18, 2024 Alaska Sporting Journal

...  “CWD has not been detected in Alaska, but our caribou, moose, deer, elk and reindeer are at risk. Proper carcass transport and disposal will keep infectious prions out of our state and help to keep our herds healthy, as well as those in other states.”  Regulations prohibit the transport of “at risk” materials through Canada and into Alaska. No whole carcasses ...

New test may help identify CWD in deer before they appear ill, researchers say September 18, 2024 Colorado, cidrap.umn

... Improved amplification tests can help detect chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the saliva, urine, and feces of white-tailed (WTD) before clinical signs appear, which may be useful in disease surveillance, Colorado State University researchers reported yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases...

Get your deer or elk tested for CWD and be entered in drawing to win hunting gear from OHA September 17, 2024 Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

     Oregon Hunters Association (OHA) is partnering with ODFW to encourage hunters to get their deer and elk tested for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) this season.   Hunters who submit a CWD test from a harvested deer or elk between Aug. 1, 2024 and April 1, 2025 will automatically be entered to win ...

Michigan participating in multi-state effort to track, predict CWD spread September 16, 2024 Michigan Farm News

... a coalition of states, provinces and tribal governments called the Surveillance Optimization Project for Chronic Wasting Disease ...  “By looking at several different factors — habitat, regulations, and deer population, for example — researchers can determine where the disease is more likely to spread.” ..,

WDFW bans wildlife feeding in parts of Spokane County to slow spread of chronic wasting disease September 12, 2024 Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

...  In an effort to manage the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD), the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) passed an emergency rule banning the feeding of deer, elk, and moose in parts of the Department’s Eastern Region 1. ...  report sick or dead deer, elk, or moose to WDFW...

Hunters Reminded of Rules on Importing Deer, Elk  August 26, 2024 Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department

...to protect Vermont's wild deer from chronic wasting disease ... It is illegal to import or possess deer or elk, or parts of deer or elk, from states and Canadian provinces that have had chronic wasting disease, or from captive hunt or farm facilities ...

State Implements Emergency Measures Following First Confirmed Case of CWD in E. WA  August 23, 2024 Washington, Source ONE News

... mandatory CWD testing for any deer or elk salvaged within ... Game Management Units (GMUs) 124, 127, and 130 ...  it is now unlawful to hunt for deer, elk, and moose using any form of bait, including natural or synthetic scents derived from cervid urine or glandular extracts, which are commonly used to attract these animals ...

Province hunting for help with Chronic Wasting Disease in deer August 24, 2024 Saskatchewan, discoverhumboldt

... "We've been monitoring chronic wasting disease since 1997 and the disease has continued to spread across the province. We are seeing increased rates across much of southern Saskatchewan and last year was no exception."  "The majority of our cases are in mule deer. We have in some areas of the province more than 50 per cent of our mule deer are infected..,

2nd CWD positive detected in Mississippi deer enclosure August 15, 2024 Yahoo

... the sample came from an enclosure in Benton County, which tested positive in April 2024. The sample was not recorded until this week..,

Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging deer farm regulations August 14, 2024 Minnesota, MPR News

... A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging Minnesota laws that tighten regulation of the farmed deer industry...  in response to the spread of chronic wasting disease ...

Missouri, Iowa see rise in Chronic Wasting Disease cases in 2023 August 13, 2024 KTVO

... Since 2012, Missouri has seen 572 cases of CWD, with 162 diagnosed in 2023 alone.  In Iowa, 389 cases have been tested since 2013, with 128 discovered in 2023.  Video

Sybille Wildlife Research Center working on CWD composting study August 8, 2024 Wyoming Game and Fish

... Previous research has demonstrated that CWD-infected carcasses that break down naturally in the environment contribute to habitat contamination.  This led researchers at Sybille to wonder if a more robust decomposition process, through composting, could reduce the amount of CWD prions left behind when an infected animal carcass breaks down...

Quarantine order issued in Western Nevada to curb deer disease spread August 7, 2024 Nevada, KRNV Reno on MSN

...  to prevent the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease ... comes after recent detections of CWD in a road killed deer near Bishop, California... as of Aug. 7, CWD has not been confirmed in Nevada..,

Chronic Wasting Disease found in Medina County deer breeding facility August 2, 2024 Texas, TPWD News

... It’s the fifth facility where CWD has been detected in the county... The disease was found during postmortem testing of a white-tailed deer... CWD has an incubation period that can span years, so the first indication of the disease in a herd is often found through routine surveillance testing rather than observed clinical signs..,

B.C. brings in more restrictions to limit spread of chronic wasting in deer, elk July 19, 2024 British Columbia, Toronto Star

... updated hunting regulations will see mandatory testing for the disease in deer, elk and moose in certain zones in the Kootenay region.  Two deer in the Kootenay region were confirmed with the disease in January ..,

Nebraska's Chronic Wasting Disease Plan July 11, 2024  Nebraska Game and Parks

... The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission first developed a CWD Management Plan in 2002... Now, Commission staff are seeking public input for the most recent revisions... View the Plan

DNR limits moving deer for rehabilitation from areas where fatal neurological disease found July 11, 2024 Indiana, journalgazette

... The Department of Natural Resources said today it has restricted moving deer for rehabilitation purposes from a four-county area of northeast Indiana in which chronic wasting disease has been found...

New law should affect health of deer herds July 6, 2024 Oklahoma, Muskogee Phoenix

... The Oklahoma law relating to live game, such as the whitetail, mule deer and elk, created the Chronic Wasting Disease Genetic Improvement Act has been signed recently. It involves releasing deer bred with the genetics to resist CWD into Oklahoma deer herds...

Chronic Wasting Disease detected in Sutton County deer breeding facility June 27, 2024 Texas, Yahoo

... the second facility where CWD has been detected in the county, located in the Edward Plateau region of Texas.  A two-year-old female white-tailed deer tested positive using postmortem testing conducted to meet CWD surveillance requirements for the facility...

How to control chronic wasting disease June 22, 2024  American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

...  if you let CWD fester for any length of time, then culling probably won’t work ...  selective breeding might work like the Covid vaccine: It’s still possible to get a breakthrough infection, but it’s had a huge impact on slowing the disease down and minimizing transmission... even if we get an effective vaccine, we’d also need to figure out a good way to distribute it ...

Chronic Wasting Disease 100 percent fatal to deer June 19, 2024 Louisiana, Minden Press-Herald

... According to Dr. Tolston, the prions can remain active for at least ten years. “There was a pen where infected elk that had tested positive for CWD and were all shot and removed. Ten years later, more elk were put in the pen and they all contracted CWD because the prion was still active on the ground where they were penned,”...

As ‘zombie’ deer disease spreads, scientists look for answers June 19, 2024 Popular Science

...  Studies show that herds afflicted with CWD decline between 3 and 20 percent per year... The only known spread of a prion disease to humans occurred in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when prions infected cattle and caused bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow Disease. More than 200 people who ate the infected beef died of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ...

Chronic Wasting Disease Detected in Trinity County Deer Breeding Facility June 14, 2024 Texas,  TPWD News

     Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) received confirmation of one case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a Trinity County deer breeding facility, marking the first detection in the county.  A two-year-old female white-tailed deer tested positive using postmortem testing conducted to meet CWD surveillance requirements for the facility...

CWD Changes Announced for 2024-25 Seasons June 13, 2024 Pennsylvania, PGC News

... The Pennsylvania Game Commission today announced the expansion of several Chronic Wasting Disease Management Areas (DMAs) due to new detections of the disease... While the antlerless harvest has increased in some WMUs with CWD over the past five years, the overall harvest in these WMUs has not been sufficient to reduce populations. Typically, the antlerless allocation is increased to meet a harvest target, however, some WMUs with CWD have reached a point of saturation where a further increase in antlerless licenses is unlikely to achieve the needed harvest...

A chronic pain for whitetails June 7, 2024 Ohio, Farm and Dairy

... In December 2020, Ohio confirmed its first chronic wasting disease positive wild deer in Wyandot County ... Since that first positive, 49 wild deer in Ohio have been identified as having CWD, all in Allen, Hardin, Marion and Wyandot counties... During the 2023-24 season, 2,734 deer were tested and positive samples were found in Allen (1), Hardin (1), Marion (4) and Wyandot (21) counties..,

State kills hundreds of deer at North Texas ranch, after years of legal fights May 31 2024 Texas, YAHOO!News

... killed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, in order to manage a highly contagious deer-specific disease called chronic wasting disease... by 10 p.m., word came up to the lodge that the depopulation itself was over. The 250 deer left on Williams’ ranch were dead...

Mississippi State experts address CWD potential risk in humans May 14, 2024 WJTV on MSN

... Since CJD [Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease] is so rare, there is cause for concern but there are still so many unknowns regarding this case. We know the two subjects had a history of consuming venison, but we don’t know if they ingested meat that tested positive for CWD. The scientists who published the brief themselves noted that more research is needed....

Maryland Department of Natural Resources Confirms 52 Deer With Chronic Wasting Disease May 8, 2024  Department of Natural Resources News

... 52 white-tailed deer sampled within Allegany, Baltimore, Frederick, Montgomery and Washington counties in 2023 tested positive for chronic wasting disease, a neurological disease found in deer, elk, and moose.  Of the positive samples, 49 came from within the existing chronic wasting disease management area (Allegany, Carroll, Frederick, and Washington counties), while one positive sample came from Baltimore County and two positive samples came from Montgomery County..,

Chronic Wasting Disease Confirmed in California Deer Population May 7, 2024 California Department of Fish and Wildlife News

... samples collected from two deer, one in Madera County near Yosemite Lakes and the other in Inyo County, near Bishop. The deer in Madera County was found dead due to unknown causes and the Inyo County deer was found dead after a vehicle collision... CDFW Urges Hunters to be Vigilant and Participate in Disease Surveillance Efforts ..,

Controversial chronic wasting disease bill awaits Governor Stitt's signature May 2, 2024 Oklahoma, KOKH

... If Governor Stitt signs House Bill 3462 into law, the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry (ODAFF) would have to create a pilot program to enhance the genetic durability of deer in Oklahoma against Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)...

National Elk Refuge will stake out the future of feeding; legal challenges all but certain May 2, 2024 Wyoming, Gillette News Record

... If officials depart from the status quo, they could be sued by a group like Gilliland’s [Wyoming Outfitters and Guides Association] ...But if the Elk Refuge chooses to continue feeding, environmental groups could also sue, building on suits they’ve already filed, arguing the refuge hasn’t moved fast enough to stop feeding and slow the spread of chronic wasting disease ..

IDNR announces detection of chronic wasting disease in Ford County May 1, 2024 Illinois, Juliana Stratton, Lt. Governor - Illinois.gov

... Chronic wasting disease has been detected in Ford County, expanding the geographic presence of the infection in free-ranging deer populations in northern Illinois ... a suspect-deer exhibiting symptoms consistent with CWD infection. Other recent cases of CWD were documented previously in Bureau and Lee counties during 2023 and 2022, respectively..,

CWD confirmed in wild Pierce County deer; feeding, baiting bans to go into effect May 15 April 30, 2024 Wisconsin, KSTP-TV

...  the first wild deer confirmed to have CWD in Pierce County ... the deer, identified as a doe around four or five years old, was humanely put down in the town of Spring Lake ...

How to Control Chronic Wasting Disease April 27, 2024 The Good Men Project

... New York State, for example, did a huge culling operation in Oneida County back in 2005 after they identified five or six CWD-positive deer for the first time. That seems to have worked ... But when wildlife managers tried localized culling in Colorado, it didn’t seem to affect CWD over the long term, possibly because the infectious protein had been in the area for so long that it essentially became baked into the landscape ...

CDC: Deer meat didn't cause hunters' deaths; concerns about chronic wasting disease April 26, 2024 USA Today

... the CDC reviewed the 2022 cases and considered the two men's deaths as "part of the normal number of cases of CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) we see in the U.S.," ... "We know that prion diseases can spread from animals to people, as we saw with (mad cow disease)," ...

Chronic wasting disease detected in Edwards County deer breeding facility April 25, 2024 Texas, Odessa American

... A pair of two-year-old does tested positive using antemortem testing conducted to meet CWD surveillance requirements for deer ... Proactive removal of deer penned with the positive deer and additional testing resulted in three subsequent CWD detections...

Federal funds available for chronic wasting disease research April 24, 2024 Farm and Dairy

... The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced the availability of more than $12 million for states and tribal governments, research institutions and universities to control and prevent chronic wasting disease in wild and farmed cervids (e.g., deer, elk)...

Two CWD infected deer were in Harpers Ferry National Park April 23, 2024 West Virginia, The Register-Herald

...The National Park Service has confirmed two of the deer which recently tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease in Jefferson County were killed on the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.  The West Virginia DNR recently confirmed the discovery of CWD in Jefferson County...

Zombie Deer, Prion Disease & Another Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From Hell April 22, 2024 American Council on Science and Health 

...  prions, misfolded proteins that are responsible for mad cow disease in the UK and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in people. The name is a shortcut for "proteinaceous infectious particle" ... For reasons that are poorly understood, prion protein Cs can unfold and then refold into a pathogenic form of the same protein ...

Chronic Wasting Disease Detected for the First Time in Tazewell County April 18, 2024 Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources

... confirmed chronic wasting disease (CWD) in an adult male deer legally harvested in Tazewell County in November of 2023. This marks the first confirmed case of CWD in Tazewell County.  The deer was brought to a taxidermist in December, and DWR obtained the sample shortly thereafter as part of the Department’s proactive statewide CWD surveillance efforts..,

White-tailed deer in Pea Ridge Military Park tests positive for Chronic Wasting Disease April 17, 2024 Arkansas, 5newsonline on MSN

... The one positive test came from a white-tailed herd health sampling at the military park. Although CWD has been present in Arkansas since 2016, this is the first positive detection at the Pea Ridge Military Park..,

CWD cases in North Dakota in 2023 not in new areas; 2025 testing will give truer picture of disease's extent April 15, 2024 North Dakota, The Bismarck Tribune

... 11 documented cases in deer during the 2023 CWD surveillance season ... wildlife officials believe the disease continues to move both northward and southward in the western half  -- where it has taken root in the last 15 years and where all of last year's cases were confirmed..,

APHIS supports projects to control and prevent chronic wasting disease April 11, 2024 North Dakato, KFGO

... USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service this week announced the availability of more than $12 million to control and prevent chronic wasting disease in wild and farmed deer and elk...

DNR confirms CWD in wild deer in Waushara County April 11, 2024 Wisconsin, WBAY

... the first positive test result for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a wild deer in Waushara County.  The DNR says the deer was found dead in early February in the town of Wautoma ...

MDC reports 162 new cases of CWD for 2023 surveillance year April 11, 2024 Missouri, MDC Report

     The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reports that it sampled and tested more than 37,000 deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD) during the 2023 CWD surveillance year between July 2023 and April 2024. Of the more than 37,000 deer sampled, 162 tested positive for CWD..,

Chronic Wasting Disease detected in Real County deer breeding facility April 8, 2024 Texas, Yahoo

...  two cases of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a Real County deer breeding facility, marking the first detections in the county... a 10-year-old and a 6.5-year-old female white-tailed deer tested positive ..,

Chronic wasting disease confirmed in Jefferson County deer April 8, 2024 West Virginia, WDTV on MSN

... the disease has been confirmed in four white tail deer..,

Federal suit filed over deer farm regulations April 3, 2024 Minnesota, The Timberjay

... The situation at the heart of the dispute is the state’s ongoing effort to control chronic wasting disease (CWD) in both the farmed and wild cervid population, including deer, moose, elk, reindeer, and sika deer ...  lawsuit filed with the Minnesota federal district court ...

To Fight Chronic Wasting Disease, BC Begins to Harvest Deer April 2, 2024 British Columbia, The Tyee

... the government of British Columbia announced that it would be harvesting 25 deer in the Kootenays. This announcement came six weeks after chronic wasting disease — a 100 per cent fatal disease of cervids (deer, elk, moose, caribou) — was first detected in the province..,

Tennessee 2024-25 Hunting And Trapping Proposals Presented To Commission At March Meeting March 23, 2024 Tennessee, Chattanoogan.com

... The Agency proposed six deer units and no change to the statewide antlered bag limit of two... The proposal removes reference to “CWD” from the management units. Instead, disease management will continue to be regulated through the CWD feeding and transportation regulations ...

Could statewide ban on supplemental deer feeding happen? MS wildlife commission mulls plan March 22, 2024 Mississippi, The Clarion-Ledger on MSN

... to slow the spread of CWD, an always-fatal disease in deer... "It is not the feed itself. We want to focus on the feeding mechanism itself and that is placing feeders on the landscape and unnaturally concentrating those animals at the same location day in and day out for long periods of time." ...

White-tailed deer in Arkansas tests positive for chronic wasting disease, AGFC confirms February 23, 2024 Arkansas, KNWA Fayetteville on MSN

... a white-tailed deer in Craighead County tested positive for chronic wasting disease.  Officials said that the 2-year-old doe was harvested near Jonesboro during the Arkansas modern gun deer hunt..,

Will supplemental feeding of deer be banned in Mississippi? Here's what we know February 22, 2024 Mississippi, Yahoo! Sport

... Supplemental feeding of deer was legalized over a decade ago ... At the time, CWD was not known to be in the state ..After the disease was found in Mississippi in 2018, feeding was banned in positive counties. Now the commission has tasked the wildlife division of the department to research if a statewide ban would slow the spread of the disease ...

It's time to take Chronic Wasting Disease seriously February 20, 2024 Mississippi,  SuperTalk Mississippi

... At the November 2022 meeting, the wildlife commission removed Claiborne from the CWD zone... proposed setting the center of the Mississippi River as the western boundary ... This arbitrary decision, despite concrete evidence of deer swimming across the river, increased the risk of disease spread in Claiborne County..,

Chronic Wasting Disease found in DeSoto County, state February 14, 2024 Mississippi, DeSoto County News

... DeSoto County joined Lafayette and Harrison for discovering CWD for the first time in January 2024. Tunica County discovered its first CWD case in March of 2023...

New Baiting And Feeding Ban For Ozaukee County Effective Feb. 15 February 12, 2024 Wisconsin DNR

... The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) was recently notified by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) that a farm-raised deer on a deer farm in Sheboygan County tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). This positive result is within 10 miles of the Fond du Lac, Ozaukee and Washington county borders, resulting in a new baiting and feeding ban to go into effect in Ozaukee County on Feb. 15, 2024..,

Manitoba looking at next steps to curtail 'zombie deer' disease after case discovered near Winkler February 11, 2024 CBC.ca

...  in Manitoba, after only four positive cases of chronic wasting disease were found among the more than 4,000 deer samples analyzed during the 2023 hunting season... Chronic wasting disease has been detected a total of 26 times in Manitoba since the first case here was discovered in 2021. The total includes 22 mule deer and four white-tailed deer,..

Minnesota DNR looking to cull deer population in northwest Rochester February 7, 2024 KIMT

... to help fight chronic wasting disease (CWD)...  after a deer tested positive for the fatal brain disease last March...

2 cases of 'zombie deer disease' have been confirmed in B.C... February 1, 2024 British Columbia, cbc.ca on MSN.com

... The B.C. government says chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been confirmed in two deer, a first for the province... the two positive cases were both found south of Cranbrook ...

Stopping the Latest Outbreak Threat: Chronic Wasting Disease February 1, 2024 Scientific American

... In 2023, a coalition of researchers began “working on a major initiative, bringing together 68 different global experts on various aspects of CWD ... Experts are alarmed about the rapid spread of CWD in deer. Recent research shows that the barrier to a spillover into humans is less formidable than previously believed ... 

The State of Chronic Wasting Disease in U.S. Deer January 29, 2024  AllOutdoor.com

... Dr. Chris Seabury, a genetics professor at Texas’ A&M School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, believes Chronic Wasting Disease can be contained by breeding deer that have natural, partial immunity to infection...

CWD detected in new Wyoming deer hunt area January 29, 2024 Wyoming Game and Fish Department

... The disease was confirmed in a buck mule deer in December.  Deer Hunt Area 90 is in the Lander Region and is bordered by deer hunt areas 36, 89, 97, 157 and 160 — all of which are CWD positive..,

Sheboygan County Deer Farm Confirmed with CWD January 25, 2024 Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection

... a Sheboygan County deer farm has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD)  ... The positive result came from a 5-year-old buck. The premises is quarantined ..,

Latest case of chronic wasting disease detected in deer near Winkler, Man. January 25, 2024 Manitoba, Canada, Global News on MSN

...  detected chronic wasting disease in the southern-central region near the city of Winkler... first detected in Manitoba in 2021, with a total of 26 cases being identified. The latest case involves a white-tailed deer ...

CWD, Area holding fatal deer disorder in Ohio has been expanding January 21, 2024 Ohio, Yahoo! Sports

... Infected deer in Ohio were first identified in 2014 at a fenced facility. Two additional outbreaks occurred later among captive deer, although no leakage was detected into the local wild population... CWD showed up in a mature wild buck in late 2020 not far from Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area in Wyandot County. A doe taken from the same general area in January 2021 also proved infected... 16 new positives in 2023..,

National laboratory does not confirm Chronic Wasting Disease at Kerr Wildlife Management Area Research Facility January 19, 2024 Texas, Yahoo

... Although no confirmed detections were obtained from regulatory tests on any deer, the second round of RT-QuIC environmental evaluations at the facility did detect the presence of prions in some environmental samples.  Out of an abundance of caution, TPWD staff euthanized all deer in the research facility prior to receiving confirmation ..,

Jones County sees first chronic wasting disease case January 18, 2024 Iowa, east central iowa news

... the deer was an adult buck harvested in December, adding that adult bucks “are the most likely demographic class to test positive ... , the infected deer was harvested within a half mile of the Dubuque County line and within 5 miles of a cluster of positives that have emerged since 2020 ..,

MDWFP detects first case of CWD in Lafayette January 17, 2024 Mississippi, The Oxford Eagle

... Lafayette County’s first detection of Chronic Wasting Disease in a deer harvested northwest of Abbeville... Mississippi started off Fiscal Year 2024 with 207 positives since first detection and is now up to 283..,

CWD-positive deer near Bondurant January 12, 2024  Wyoming, EIN News

... Wyoming Game and Fish Department first confirmed the presence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Wyoming’s Deer Hunt Area 154 near Bondurant this past September, from a hunter-harvested buck mule deer. A second CWD-positive buck mule deer was confirmed in this hunt area in late November 2023..,

CWD detected in new Wyoming elk hunt area January 9, 2024 Wyoming Game and Fish Department

... The disease was confirmed in a hunter-harvested cow elk in late December 2023.  Elk Hunt Area 28 is in the Lander Region and is bordered by Elk Hunt areas 127 and 98 where CWD was detected in 2022 and 2021..,

Deadly Deer Disease Spreads In Texas, With No Easy Explanation January 8, 2024 Texas, HuffPost

...The infection at the Kerr research facility capped off a record year of CWD spread in Texas by raising the same question that has confounded officials since the case count started climbing in 2021: How does the disease keep working its way into new sites, when infected deer aren’t the ones spreading it? ...

Creighton researcher receives $2.7 million grant to study infectious prions January 5, 2024 Nebraska, Fremont Tribune

... prions — the infectious agents that cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases, including chronic wasting disease in deer ...  “the first solid evidence” that substrains are present in a prion mix in a stable rodent model and that administering anti-prion drugs can allow drug-resistant ones to emerge...

Fighting the fatal chronic wasting disease in N.C. deer January 2, 2024 North Carolina, Spectrum News

...So far in 2023, there have been five CWD cases reported in three counties. This sampling period will run until June 30, 2024.  2022 was the first year CWD was confirmed in North Carolina, and by the end of the year, it had been reported in seven counties for a total of 15 cases..,

CWD Update: Mississippi detects 14 new positives last week January 1, 2023 Mississippi, panolian

...  In one week, 14 new positives have been detected.  It is likely more will come in over the next few weeks ... Since first detection in 2018, MDWFP has detected 266 positives..,

CWD Detected in Elk Near Pinedale December 27, 2023 Wyoming, SweetwaterNOW

... Chronic wasting disease was recently confirmed in a new hunt area near Pinedale ... found in a cow elk in Elk Hunt Area 92, which has a small border with Elk Hunt Area 98, where the disease was detected in 2021.., 

Dodge County Herd Depopulated Following CWD Detection December 20, 2023 Wisconsin, State of Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection News

... The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) confirms that a Dodge County deer farm that tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in May 2023 has been depopulated. Of the 172 animals depopulated, 23 tested positive for the disease. In total, there were 26 positive cases of CWD at this premises, as three cervids had died prior to depopulation..,

CWD era begins: With deer disease here, we and the whitetails will cope December 20, 2023 Kentucky, Times Leader

... Chronic wasting disease ... e in Kentucky first was revealed with positive results from an incidental test done on tissues from a 2½-year-old Ballard County whitetail buck... The deer appeared perfectly healthy. The only reason it was tested for chronic wasting disease,

CWD, is that it was taken to a meat processing shop ...

Wisconsin's deer-bait business thrives while CWD worsens December 19, 2023 Watertown Daily Times

... Baiting and feeding deer is illegal in 59 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties ... Given that all open-baiting counties are two- to five-hour drives from the state capital, Craven—a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison—couldn’t fathom why Madison retailers would stock and sell deer corn...

Chronic Wasting Disease Detected in Free-Range Coleman County Deer Dec. 8, 2023 Texas, TPWD News

...  the first detection in the county.  A two-year-old whitetail buck harvested by a hunter on a low-fenced property tested positive through sampling conducted voluntarily to assist with the state’s CWD surveillance...

Chronic wasting disease confirmed in Kentucky for first time December 7, 2023  Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources News

... Two independent types of tests were performed on tissue collected from a 2 ½-year-old male white-tailed deer that was harvested by a hunter in Ballard County in November. Both tests yielded the same test result: the deer was infected with the abnormal proteins that cause CWD.​​​  It is Kentucky’s first documented case of the disease.​.,

Mandatory deer check station weekend December 9-10 in Holmes, Jackson and Washington counties December 7, 2023 Florida, FWC News

... all deer harvested in Holmes, Jackson and Washington counties must be checked at a staffed FWC check station.  Following confirmation of a positive test in June 2023 for CWD in a white-tailed deer in Holmes County, the FWC issued new executive orders outlining regulations designed to increase sampling and slow the spread of CWD in Florida deer...

"We need help. Help with freezer space": Deer processors have concerns over new donation requirements December 5, 2023 Michigan, fox17

... the processor must wait for negative chronic wasting disease, bovine tuberculosis, and lead test results... "... we've got to hang on to these deer for almost a month or month and a half. And we have no freezer space to do that.”...

CWD found in S. Mississippi deer, 150 miles from nearest previous case. How did it happen? December 5, 2023 The Clarion-Ledger 

... "If you look at the Mississippi cases, the straight-line distance is 165 miles," said Russ Walsh, Wildlife Chief of Staff for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. "This positive was in southwest Harrison County, northeast of Diamondhead and about 12 miles northwest of Gulfport. "It was on private land. It was a 2 1/2-year-old buck." ..,

Minnesota DNR to hold December deer hunt to battle chronic wasting disease December 4, 2023 Fox 9

... The special hunt will take place Dec. 15-17 and permit areas open to the hunt are in southeast Minnesota ... The DNR expanded the CWD deer hunt to permit area 342, which is near Wabasha, after a case of the disease was confirmed in the area...

Chronic Wasting Disease Detected in Harrison County December 1, 2023  Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks News

... positive test results for a hunter-harvested buck from Harrison County.  This is the first CWD-positive detection for this county. The buck was considered “suspect positive” through initial testing and confirmed on November 29, 2023 by the National Veterinary Services Laboratories. Additional information will be forthcoming about a CWD Management Zone.  Since February 2018, 218 CWD-positive white-tailed deer have been detected across eleven (11) counties..,

Chronic wasting disease confirmed in a deer killed in Allen County December 1, 2023 Ohio, hometownstations

... One deer killed in Jackson Township in Allen County was confirmed to have the fatal disease ..,

Chronic Wasting Disease Detected at Kerr Wildlife Management Area Captive Deer Research Facility December 1, 2023 Texas Parks and Wildlife News

... a suspect-positive case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a 14-month-old captive male white-tailed deer at the Kerr Wildlife Management Area (WMA) research facility... Out of an abundance of caution, TPWD staff euthanized all deer in the research facility and collected post-mortem samples, which resulted in no additional detections... “TPWD staff are disappointed to abruptly end nearly 50 years of white-tailed deer research that has significantly influenced deer management in Texas ..,

Test confirms second CWD-positive deer south of Crookston November 30, 2023 Wisconsin, YAHOO!News

... One deer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease in the Red River Valley near Climax, Minnesota, and another remains "suspect," based on testing conducted during the firearms deer season, according to a report from the Department of Natural Resources..,

DNR Confirms CWD In Wild Deer In Jackson County November 30, 2023 Wisconsin DNR News

... the first positive test result for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a wild deer in Jackson County. The deer was harvested in the town of Garfield and is within 10 miles of the Eau Claire and Trempealeau county borders... The deer was a hunter-harvested 2-year-old buck ..,

Chronic wasting disease confirmed in Payson deer November 30, 2023 Utah, Yahoo

... Chronic wasting disease ... has been found for the first time in Payson... State Wildlife Veterinarian Ginger Stout said the disease appears to be spreading as the DWR is finding the disease in new areas..,

Chronic wasting disease found in new county February 28, 2023 Florida, Gladwin County Record & Beaverton Clarion

...  found in Ogemaw County — a county that had never seen the disease before. And that worries the Department of Natural Resources. Showing zombielike symptoms, the deer was in its final stages of the sickness: drooling, skinny and behaving strangely ...

CWD detected in a wild deer in southeastern Minnesota November 28, 2023 Albert Lea Tribune

... A deer harvested during the opening weekend of firearms season near Wabasha in southeastern Minnesota has tested positive for chronic wasting disease ..,  DNR Report

CWD detected in new Wyoming elk hunt area November 24, 2023 Wyoming Fish and Game Department

... The disease was detected in a hunter-harvested bull elk in early October.  Elk Hunt Area 58 is in the Cody Region and is bordered by two areas that previously detected CWD in elk..,

CWD detected for the first time in hunting district 213 near Deer Lodge November 23, 2023 Montana FWP News

...  Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was recently detected in a mule deer buck that was harvested by a hunter in hunting district (HD) 213 west of Deer Lodge. This is the first time CWD has been detected in the HD and in Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Region 2..,

TWRA Detects CWD in Lewis County November 21, 2023 Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency News

... The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) has received a positive Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) test result in a hunter-harvested deer in Lewis County. This is the first positive CWD case for Lewis County and will result in changes to feeding and carcass transportation regulations...

Wildlife Agency Confirms First Case of CWD in Franklin County, North Carolina November 21, 2023 North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission News

... confirms a 2.5-year-old female white-tailed deer harvested in Franklin County has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The deer was hunter-harvested during firearms season and represents the first detection of the disease in Franklin County..,

Hunter involved in ‘zombie’ deer case pleads guilty. Diseased deer head brought to SC November 20, 2023 South Carolina, YAHOO!News

... admitted in federal court that he was part of a group that broke state and federal laws when it hauled a deer head with chronic wasting disease to South Carolina from Kansas...

CWD in Mississippi deer: Myths debunked and how hunters can help manage the disease November 17, 2023 The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)

... "There's misinformation out there about what happens if a positive is found," McKinley [MDWFP Deer Program coordinator] said. "People think we'll come out there and kill all their deer and that's wrong... "It's always been here" ... science does not support that. He said in the early 2000s, Benton County was one of the most heavily sampled counties in the state ...,

CWD spread continues in NC November 10, 2023 Carolina Sportsman

...  Chronic Wasting Disease has reached Johnston County, NC for the first time.  Testing on a 31/2-year-old doe was conducted after the deer was harvested in the county by a hunter during archery season...

Deer farm in Oneida County confirmed to have chronic wasting disease November 8, 2023 Wisconsin, WLUK Green Bay

...  the infected deer is a 4-year-old white-tailed buck. The farm is being quarantined while an epidemiological investigation is conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture ..,

New CWD case discovered in Unit 32A mule deer November 8, 2023 Idaho Fish Department of Fish and Wildlife News

... Idaho Fish and Game recently received test results confirming a positive case of chronic wasting disease in a mule deer buck harvested roughly 7 miles south of New Meadows in Game Management Unit 32A. This is the first known case of CWD outside of Unit 14 north of Riggins, where the disease was first detected in Idaho in the fall of 2021..,

CWD found in elk south of Cody November 6, 2023 Wyoming, Cody Enterprise

... chronic wasting disease south of Cody ... in a hunter-harvested bull elk in early October... Elk Hunt Area 58 overlaps with Deer Hunt Area 113 where the disease also has been detected..,

Legislature sits indifferent as CWD infects 60% of counties November 6, 2023  Antigo Daily Journal

...  the Legislature ended the DNR’s statewide bait/feed ban in 2003, stonewalled mandatory testing, quashed targeted shooting in CWD hotspots, slashed research funding in 2007, outlawed earn-a-buck regulations in 2011, and OK’d ending or shortening various October, January and February antlerless gun seasons in 2011...

DNR Confirms CWD In Wild Deer In Trempealeau County November 1, 2023 Wisconsin DNR - Wisconsin.gov

... The deer was harvested in the town of Hale... The deer was a hunter-harvested 3-year-old doe and is the first confirmed wild deer CWD-positive detected in Trempealeau County..,

DNR Confirms CWD In Wild Deer In Polk County November 1, 2023 Wisconsin DNR - Wisconsin.gov

...  The deer was harvested in the town of Apple River and is within 10 miles of the Barron County border... The deer was a hunter-harvested 3-year-old doe and is the first confirmed wild deer CWD-positive detected in Polk County..,

CWD detected in new Wyoming elk hunt area October 25, 2023 Wyoming Game and Fish News

     The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has confirmed the presence of chronic wasting disease in Elk Hunt Area 58. The disease was detected in a hunter-harvested bull elk in early October.  Elk Hunt Area 58 is in the Cody Region and is bordered by two areas that previously detected CWD in elk. 

CWD Sampling Continues At Eastern Washington Deer Check Stations October 23, 2023 Northwest Sportsman Magazine

... CWD is not known to occur in Washington, but with outbreaks in Northwest Montana and in Central Idaho just east of Hells Canyon, WDFW has made testing harvested and roadkilled deer, elk and other ungulates in far Eastern Washington a priority ...

Chronic Wasting Disease detected in Medina County deer breeding facility October 24, 2023 Texas, Odessa American

... he Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) received confirmation of a case of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Medina County, marking the fifth detection since 2015 in a deer-breeding facility in the county.  A 1-year-old buck tested positive ..,

Don't dump deer carcasses around roads or waters of St. Louis, MDC warns October 18, 2023 Missouri,  FOX 2

... Not only is dumping of this nature illegal in Missouri, but agents are also concerned it could lead to the spread of chronic wasting disease. Long after infected carcass remains decompose, prions stay infectious in the environment, possibly exposing other deer to CWD...

Farm-raised deer in Outagamie County diagnosed with chronic wasting October 4, 2023 Wisconsin, Advance-Titan

... a farm-raised deer on a deer farm in Outagamie County tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). This positive result is within 10 miles of the Calumet, Waupaca and Winnebago county borders, and will enact a new baiting and feeding ban to go into effect in Calumet County on Oct. 13, 2023..,

Additional CWD-positive deer identified in Grand Rapids city limits October 11, 2023 Michigan, Grand Rapids Herald-Review

...  harvested by an archer during the city hunt has been confirmed as the city’s third CWD-positive wild deer. The yearling female deer was harvested west of the Grand Rapids airport...

CWD detected in new Wyoming deer hunt area October 9, 2023 Wyoming Game and Fish

...  The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has confirmed the presence of chronic wasting disease in Wyoming’s Deer Hunt Area 154. The disease was detected in a hunter-harvested buck mule deer in September.  Deer Hunt Area 154 is in the Jackson Region and is bordered by three areas that previously detected CWD in deer ...

DNR to test for chronic wasting disease in Northern Michigan this year October 2, 2023 9&10 News

... Starting in 2021, the DNR began a rotational approach to testing for CWD ....  testing has occurred in and around areas where CWD has been detected. This has led to detection of CWD in 12 of Michigan’s 83 counties ..,

DNR cautions hunters of CWD transmissions as Minnesota 2023 hunting season begins September 26, 2023 Minnesota, KAAL

... So far this year, there have been CWD-positive cases at nine deer farms in Wisconsin, and a positive case in Marshall County, Iowa.  Back in June, the Minnesota DNR enacted a ban on deer-feeding and baiting across 29 counties ...

Sask. hunters urged to submit wildlife samples for disease detection September 26, 2023 Saskatchewan, Global News

... The Ministry of Environment said it was focusing on certain wildlife management zones, but added that chronic wasting disease (CWD) was detected in 60 of the 83 zones in the province..,

Possible reason for CWD at local farm discussed September 20, 2023 Wisconsin,  apg-wi.com

... CWD prions have been found in the feces of crows, but disease transmission has not been documented. Similarly, CWD prions have been found in semen of infected bucks, but transmission via artificial insemination has not been proven. As a former certified cervid farm veterinarian, I would say the chances of a crow bringing CWD onto a deer farm, while theoretically possible, are extremely remote compared to other avenues of exposure ...

Deer Farmers Hoping to Breed Chronic Wasting Disease Out of Herds September 19, 2023 Pennsylvania, Lancaster Farming

... Seabury’s genomic evaluation test ... gives farmers a genomically estimated breeding value, which can predict disease susceptibility with an 89% accuracy ... Since the test was released about two years ago, almost 49,000 deer have been tested, with over 16,000 being labeled as less susceptible...

Kimble County Deer Breeding Facility September 13, 2023 Texas Parks and Wildlife

... a 6-year-old doe at a breeding facility in Kimble County tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease...This is the second time the disease was detected at a deer-breeding facility in the county, TPWD states..,

CWD, A look at Pennsylvania's upcoming deer seasons and what hunters need to know September 13, 2023 Yahoo

... Pennsylvania first detected CWD in 2012 at a captive deer facility in Adams County. The Game Commission has tested more than 131,000 wild, free-ranging whitetails for CWD since 1998, along with more than 1,900 elk.  CWD has been found in more than 1,400 deer, 243 of those taken by hunters last season. It has not been detected in Pennsylvania’s elk herd..,

In Teton County, Game and Fish will pay for hunters' carcass disposal September 13, 2023 Wyoming, Jackson Hole News & Guide

...In a bid to keep chronic wasting disease from spreading, and unattended carcasses from attracting grizzlies, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department will pay for the disposal of hunters’ carcasses in Teton County this year...

McLennan County judge blocks TPWD order requiring breeders to kill 29 deer September 7, 2023 Texas, KWTX

... “trace deer” that tested positive for Chronic Waste Disease at another facility were traced to their facility... The breeders contend the 29 traced deer at their facilities are being sequestered from the other deer at their operations...

CWD, Former Tennessee Wildlife and Resources Agency biologist September 7, 2023 Tennessee Lookout

... In a whistleblower lawsuit filed this week, Kelly alleges state officials manipulated data and misled the public about the prevalence of chronic wasting disease, a fatal and infectious disease that attacks deer populations.  He claims TWRA failed to follow best scientific practices and its own regulations in diagnosing potentially infected deer...

Chronic wasting disease, regulations impact Texas deer breeders September 7, 2023 Texas Farm Bureau

... Just two years ago, in September 2021, there were 980 deer breeders in Texas. Now, due to a number of factors, including the cost of testing herds for CWD and mandatory depopulation after CWD is found in a facility, there are only 683 breeders left in the state...

Washburn County Deer Farm Confirmed with CWD August 31, 2023 Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection

... The positive result came from a 3-year-old doe. The 150-acre farm has been placed under quarantine, where it will remain while DATCP and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) veterinarians and staff conduct the epidemiological investigation...

Roadmap for lifting deer baiting restrictions outlined in North Dakota CWD plan August 21, 2023 North Dakota, Grand Forks Herald

... will allow deer baiting restrictions to be lifted in hunting units where chronic wasting disease has been found, if the number of adult deer equivalent to at least 10% of allocated gun licenses are tested for CWD within a year and all results are negative...

Chronic wasting disease battle continues August 9, 2023 Colorado, The Daily Sentinel

... testing results from last year ... prevalence in the White River herd, one of the state’s largest, rose from 15.3% to 23.6%. Prevalence increased by about 10%, to 14%, in the Uncompahgre herd, and grew from 3.5% to 8% in the Middle Park herd. Prevalence fell from 13.6% to 6.7% in the Sweetwater herd and from 12% to 8% in the Big Thompson herd..,

Chronic Wasting Disease: Deadly deer disease shows ‘exponential growth’ in Iowa August 7, 2023 Iowa, Ottumwa Courier

... “We know based on data and how the disease has progressed in other states that we would expect to see this kind of slow progression for the first six to 10 years, and then once the disease is established, this exponential growth,” said Tyler Harms, a wildlife research biometrician for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources..,

Notice of Proposed Changes in Regulations On Cervides to mitigate Chronic Wasting Disease Risk August 4, 2023 California Department of Fish and Game Commission

   A notice of proposed changes in regulations pertaining to mitigating risks for cervid importation and movement has been posted to the  Commission's website. The notice and associated documents can be accessed at: https://fgc.ca.gov/Regulations/2023-New-and-Proposed#257.5

Chronic wasting disease found in Marshall County deer August 1, 2023 Iowa DNR News

... A tissue sample collected in mid-June from a road killed adult buck deer in Marshall County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. With the addition of Marshall County, 260 deer have tested positive in 16 Iowa counties since 2013..,

Chronic wasting disease quarantine zone reduced in Lancaster County July 29, 2023 Pennsylvania, LancasterOnline

... Disease Management Area 4 was created in 2018 after two captive deer on a farm in West Cocalico Township were found to have chronic wasting disease...  expanded a year later, when four captive deer on a farm in Upper Leacock Township were found to have chronic wasting disease...

Slowing the Spread July 29, 2023 Missouri Department of Conservation

...  From July 2022 to April 2023, MDC tested more than 33,000 deer and only found 118 positive CWD cases. Most of these were hunter harvested, brought by hunters to mandatory sampling stations in the CWD Management Zone during the opening weekend of the regular firearms season, or to voluntary sampling spots such as freezer drop-offs for deer heads....

Emergency rules adopted for movement of breeder deer July 25, 2023 Texas, Yahoo

... "Since 2021, we have seen an increase in CWD detections from breeder deer at an unprecedented rate," said John Silovsky, Wildlife Division Director for TPWD... The change requires all breeder deer to be ante-mortem (live-animal) tested for CWD ... before transferring to another deer breeding facility or release site...

University of Minnesota startup specializes in detecting CWD July 23, 2023 Grand Forks Herald

... A Minneapolis-based startup company has executed a license agreement with the University of Minnesota to provide new rapid-testing options for chronic wasting disease and other prion and protein-misfolding diseases.  Priogen Corp., specializes in next-generation prion diagnostic services and technologies...

Chronic wasting disease detected in deer at Brooks County breeding facility July 19, 2023 Texas, Kiii3 News

... The Brooks County breeding facility is the ninth of of its kind in the state to report the disease since March 1 ... there were about 1,000 deer in that facility, and a number of animals who came into contact with the one infected doe did not test positive for the disease...

2022 CWD testing results July 19, 2023  Wyoming Game and Fish Department

     The Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Wildlife Health Laboratory tested 6,701 samples from big game animals for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in 2022. Testing was completed earlier this year on samples that were submitted from across the state. CWD was not detected in 5,875 samples and 826 samples were positive.

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