- Hello Jeff - It saddens me to hear of the slaughter of
such gentle animals. The kill zone theory, i.e. a quarantine is set up
around an area found to have a deer positive for CWD and no deer are left
alive in the area, and any deer entering the area is automatically shot.
This does NOTHING to stop the spread of CWD. In fact, I think it is serving
to ensure that healthy deer populations don't exist.
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- When we see a mass slaughter as in this case, we hear
of one or two deer positive for CWD. What occurs is the remaining HEALTHY
animals are also slaughtered. This is cutting down on healthy deer that
we need if deer are to survive in north America. I know that I may be
one of the few who see it that way, but a thinking person must agree that
we need healthy animals for survival. If the healthy population numbers
are cut, the sick population numbers will increase the overall percentage
of infected deer. We just saw that ONE THIRD of all the deer in Boulder,
CO are infected.
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- Wildlife officials are simply overwhelmed and don't know
how to address CWD. This is no excuse for setting up kill zones whereby
every deer in a designated area is destroyed. It doesn't work, it is cruel,
and it may be responsible for increasing percentage numbers of infected
deer.
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- Patty
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- White-Tailed Deer In Portage County Tests
Positive For CWD
- NBC26 Green Bay Appleton
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- A 2nd white-tailed deer has tested positive for chronic
wasting disease (CWD), from a herd of deer that was euthanized in November
[2008] on a Portage County hunting preserve. The 1st CWD-positive deer,
a 7.5-year-old doe, was discovered during routine testing after it was
shot in September [2008]. That discovery led to destroying the herd so
the rest of the deer could be tested. The 2nd positive deer is a 3.5-year-old
doe.
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- Wildlife specialists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Wildlife Services shot 64 deer at Alligator Creek Whitetails LLC near Junction
City, beginning Wednesday 12 Nov 2008, and finishing Tue 18 Nov 2008. Because
the hunting preserve is made up of 119 acres of open, wooded, and tall-grass
marsh lands, the shooters returned after snow fell to check for tracks
to see whether any deer remained. At that time, they shot 2 more deer.
Those CWD test results are not available yet.
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- The National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames,
Iowa, confirmed the positive result after initial screening tests at the
Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin. The CWD-positive
deer had been born on the property and did not have ties to any other deer
farm. The preserve was placed under quarantine immediately when the 1st
positive test result was reported 9 Oct 2008 to the state veterinarian's
office. A quarantine means that no live deer could be moved onto or off
the premises.
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- Areas of heavy deer traffic on the preserve will have
the top soil removed and replaced to reduce the risk of contamination.
Stocking deer or elk on the property is prohibited for 5 years, and fences
must be maintained during that time to prevent free-ranging deer from entering.
The herd owner will receive state and federal indemnities that pay a portion
of the appraised value of the deer.
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- This was the 1st new CWD-infected herd on a Wisconsin
farm since January 2005. To date, 98 farm-raised animals in Wisconsin have
tested positive for CWD, including 82 on a separate Portage County operation.
One of the infected animals was an elk; the rest have been white-tailed
deer. More than 22 500 farm-raised deer in Wisconsin have been tested for
CWD.
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- Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a disease that is known
to affect deer, elk and moose. Prions -- a particular type of protein in
the brain -- become malformed and create microscopic holes in the brain.
The disease is always fatal. Scientists have not determined exactly what
causes the malformed prions or how the disease is transmitted, but one
means of transmission may be ingestion of prion-contaminated soil. When
CWD was 1st reported in free-ranging white-tailed deer in Wisconsin in
February 2002, it was the 1st appearance of the disease east of the Mississippi
River. CWD was 1st found in a Wisconsin farm-raised deer in September 2002.
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- http://www.nbc26.com/Global/story.asp?S=9541420&nav=menu1454_2
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural
Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases"
message board at:
- http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also my
new website:
- http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
Go with God and in Good Health
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