(2005) Human land use influences
chronic wasting disease prevalence in mule deer.
Chronic wasting disease drives population decline of white-tailed deer.
Endemic
chronic wasting disease causes mule deer decline in Wyoming.--PLoS One 12(10): e0186512.
White-tailed deer harvest from the
chronic wasting disease eradication zone in South-central Wisconsin.
(PDL) produces tests for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE's) such as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or 'Mad Cow") in cattle, Scrapie in sheep and goats, and
Chronic Wasting disease (CWD) in deer.
"We are asking hunters to bring their deer and elk carcasses to biological check stations or their nearest ODFW office to be sampled for
chronic wasting disease (CWD)," said Colin Gillin, ODFW state wildlife veterinarian.
Wildlife officials are becoming increasingly worried about
chronic wasting disease (CWD), a/k/a "mad deer disease," which has been detected in wild and captive deer and elk in 12 states (see "What About Mad Deer Disease?," Features, July/August 2001).
The sickness is called
chronic wasting disease in elk.
Chronic Wasting Disease is a high profile disease of wild and domestic cervidae.
Scrapie in sheep and goats, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, is a member of the family of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), which includes bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle,
chronic wasting disease in deer and elk, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
By tagging individual deer and elk, the USDA will be able to monitor the movement of the animals and try to determine how they are contracting
chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal neurological disorder.