- Hello Jeff: I do not believe
that people understand the urgency and severity of the situation of
chronic wasting disease and its implications for the US and Canada.
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- If you read the previous
references, then you see that CWD is a major problem from New York
through the Rocky Mountain States and into Canada and still spreading.
I believe that the spread of CWD coincides with the spread of sCJD.
Many patients who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, I
believe, have been missed diagnosed and may, very well, have sporadic
CJD.
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- Science does not have
an answer for us at this time, and we have no solution in sight.
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- The spread of this disease
has very severe consequences for the US and Canada and eventually
Central and South America.
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- Patricia
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- 1] Date: Tues 14 May 2002
- From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
- Source: Denver Post [edited]
<http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E609759%257E,00.html>
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- Two More Cases Of CWD
Found Inside Elk Ranch In Routt County
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- The 2 infected mule deer
were killed inside an 1800 acre hunting pen at the Motherwell Ranch
in January. But their brains were in a batch of about 90 deer heads
sent to the University of Wyoming in Laramie for analysis.
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- The results returned last
week bring the number of cases of the fatal brain wasting disease
on the Western Slope to 10. About 1000 deer were killed inside the
ranch's hunting pen and in a 5 mile radius around the facility between
January and April 2002. A total of 4 sick deer were found inside the
fence and 6 more deer were found outside -- all within a few miles
of the ranch. None of the 146 elk killed outside the facility tested
positive.
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- Wes Adams, owner of the
Motherwell hunting and fishing ranch, has refused to allow the US
Department of Agriculture to kill his herd of 103 elk to see whether
the animals are infected. USDA would pay up to $2850 per animal. Adams
said he spent much more for his trophy bulls and breeding cows. "Our
biggest concern right now is the need to depopulate that herd," said
Denny Behrens of the Colorado Mule Deer Association. "We think the
facility is infected. It's a matter of how many."
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- [2] Date: Sat 18 May 2002
- From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
- Source: The Western Producer
16 May 2002 [edited] <http://www.producer.com/articles/20020516/news/20020516news29.html>
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- Saskatchewan Officials
Suspect Another Case Of CWD In The Wild
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- A sample taken from a
3year old mule deer buck was tested at Prairie Diagnostic Services
in Saskatoon and has been sent to a lab in Nepean, Ontario, for confirmation.
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- Provincial CWD manager
Kevin Omoth said the sample will be checked a third time in the United
States if it tests positive at the Ontario lab.
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- The buck was found in
the Manito Sand Hills area near Lloydminster, where 2 other positive
tests have been confirmed in the past year. It was among 185 samples
taken from an estimated deer population of 400 in the area.
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- The department will again
be asking for hunter and landowner cooperation this fall, when they
begin collecting deer and elk heads for testing. In the past 4 years
5838 samples have been tested.
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- [3] Date: 24 May 2002
- From: Pablo Nart <p.nart@virgin.net>
- Source: Green Bay Press
Gazette 23 May 2002 [edited] <http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_4125265.shtml>
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- Four More Cases Of Fatal
Brain Disease In Deer Found
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- The [Wisconsin] State
Natural Resources Board was told that 4 more deer killed in a special
hunt in March and April had a fatal brain disease and one was found
just outside an area where the state wants all deer killed.
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- As a result, the Department
of Natural Resources (DNR) will expand the 287 square mile eradication
zone by about 65 square miles near Cross Plains and Ridgeway, said
Julie Langenberg, a DNR wildlife veterinarian.
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- In another development,
the DNR said it was scaling back immediate plans to kill all the deer
in the eradication zone just west of Madison by limiting hunting to
one week each month during the summer.
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- Langenberg said a 4 years
and 6 months old doe killed south east of Ridgeway was among 4 deer
that tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) when their
lymph nodes were examined. The tests indicated all 4 had early stages
of the infection before it moves into the brain, she said. The additional
4 deer bring to 18 the number of the animals confirmed. All were killed
in Dane and Iowa counties. The deer near Ridgeway was the first one
found south of Mount Horeb. The others have been mostly northwest
of the city. Natural Resources Board Chairman Trig Solberg said during
the meeting in Minocqua he was not surprised diseased deer were found
on the fringes of the eradication zone, forcing wildlife officials
to expand it.
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- [4] Date: 23 May 2002
- From: Doug Metcalf <dmetcalf@boah.state.in.us>
- Source: Wisconsin Department
of Natural Resources News Release [edited]
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- New Test Procedure Find
4 More CWD Positive Deer
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- MADISON, Wisconsin: Additional
testing of tissues from a sample of 516 deer shot in March and April
2002 and submitted for CWD testing has yielded 4 additional CWD positive
deer from the sample area. The test uses lymph node tissue and is
still experimental, but seems to compare well to the accepted test
standard using brain stem tissue.
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- This brings the total
number of CWD cases found in the 516 deer sample taken from western
Dane-eastern Iowa counties to 15. "Several research facilities have
been working at developing reliable alternate CWD tests detecting
CWD earlier in the disease cycle," said DNR's wildlife veterinarian
Julie Langenberg. "This test is an immunohistochemical staining (IHC)
process, similar to the IHC test currently used on the brain stem."
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- "The brain stem test continues
to be the currently accepted standard for determining the presence
of CWD in a wildlife population," said Langenberg, "but working with
research partners to use new tests to better diagnose CWD will improve
our chances of successfully eradicating the disease."
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- Wisconsin wildlife officials
are confident enough of the lymph test results to add them to the
list of positive CWD diagnoses, noting that the telltale staining
indicating CWD under the microscope is a characteristic and reliable
indicator. Lymph tissue collected from the 11 deer previously determined
infected via the brain stem test also proved positive in the additional
testing.
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- The 4 deer announced as
CWD positive today did not show up positive in the earlier brain stem
testing. One of the reasons for developing a lymph test, according
to animal health experts, is that it shows promise for detecting the
disease at an earlier stage, before there is sufficient buildup of
the disease-causing agent to be detected in the brain stem test. DNR
wildlife managers had informed landowners submitting deer for testing
in March and April 2002 that additional tests might be run on deer
shot on their properties, and the possibility existed for additional
positive results.
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- One of the 4 new CWD finds
is near the south western edge of the current CWD eradication zone.
Based on the state's CWD management plan, the zone now will be modified
to incorporate the new findings. The management plan calls for extending
the zone if a CWD positive deer is found near the edge of the current
boundary by including those sections within about 4 miles of a section
containing a CWD positive deer. This will add about 41 square miles
to the eradication zone bringing it to 328 square miles.
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