- Hello Jeff - In the age of 'budget cutbacks and
austerity measures' for US citizens ONLY as money continues to flow unabated
overseas), the Feds just pulled the funding and declared the CWD emergency
OVER. Fools. Republicans felt they received a mandate from the American
people because of their win in the last election. They have decided they
have a right to end funding of programs in the US, programs like Social
Security, Medicare, and to keep OUR money flowing overseas.
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- The politicians are very misguided. First of all, they
were only elected due to an overwhelming antipathy to Obama administration
policies and did not get a mandate to end programs vital to the US such
as Social Security, Medicare and health programs such as is funded for
Chronic Wasting Disease and White Nose Syndrome.
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- How blind can the Feds be? Chronic Wasting Disease is
not over, far from it. I understand the Feds giving up on containing
it as it is spreading. But to claim the emergency is over is just plain
stupid.
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- It is about time to end the flow of tax payer money heading
to countries like Jordan, Pakistan, Israel, Egypt etc. If the intent in
giving the money overseas is to make these countries like us, I have a
better way. End the war in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya and bring the troops
home. That would be a first step in helping to heal the rift between the
nations and the US. The money saved from the wars and overseas funding
for goodwill would be well spent on Chronic Wasting Disease. It would
also be well used by REPLACING the funds that have been "raided"
from the Social Security till.
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- Patty
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- Durkin: Feds Wash Hands Of Worsening CWD
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- By Patrick Durkin
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- For the State Journal
- May 15, 2011
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- Toss those latex gloves, shout "I told you so!"
and tell the state veterinarian and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
to quit fretting about chronic wasting disease.
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- Why? The CWD national emergency is over.
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- Don't you remember? The U.S. Department of Agriculture
declared CWD a crisis in 2001.
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- Well, it's over now, so quit scratching your head. According
to the 2012 budget report from the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service, CWD is no longer cause for nationwide angst.
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- Wait. Put your gloves back on.
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- Upon further review, it's now our problem, not the country's.
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- In explaining its proposed $14 million cut for CWD monitoring
nationwide, the APHIS report reads: "Since these are local or regional
disease spread issues, state and local governments should assume a more
active role, and better anticipate and plan for future needs."
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- Imagine that. CWD was a national emergency 10 years ago,
before it was found east of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin and Illinois
in 2002. Since then, it's also been found in New York, West Virginia, Virginia,
Maryland and Minnesota.
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- Further, CWD infection rates in Wisconsin again set records
in 2010, and Illinois found new cases farther west and south than before.
In fact, as of late April, 15 states and Canadian provinces had CWD in
wild deer, elk or moose.
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- How does a disease deteriorate from national scourge
to localized rash while increasing in density and range? And how can USDA-APHIS
suggest state and local governments do a better job of disease planning?
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- I concede we've been distracted by wars, recession and
earn-a-buck spasms, but I don't recall the feds predicting the following
infection-rate increases for Wisconsin's CWD core area from 2004 to 2010:
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- -- adult does, 4 percent to nearly 8 percent;
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- -- 1.5-year-old bucks, 2 percent to nearly 9 percent;
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- -- adult bucks,10 percent to more than 16 percent.
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- The only deer group not growing sicker through 2010 was
1.5-year-old does. Even so, their infection rate worsened from about 3
percent in 2004 to more than 6 percent in 2009 before registering a fluky
2 percent in 2010.
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- Either way, CWD keeps worsening, not just in the core
area, but in nearby less-diseased counties, too. In 2010 in Sauk County,
DNR tests found 16 CWD cases, or 27 percent of the county's 60 cases since
2002. And in Richland County, DNR tests found 11 new cases, 52 percent
of the county's 21 total cases.
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- Barstool biologists might dismiss these as outliers,
but even with fewer tests in both counties the DNR found more sick deer
in 2010 than 2009.
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- -- In Sauk County, 913 tests in 2010 revealed 16 CWD
cases, compared to 1,100 tests and 12 CWD cases in 2009. That's 33 percent
more sick deer from 17 percent fewer tests.
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- -- In Richland County, 660 tests in 2010 revealed 11
CWD cases, compared to 933 tests and seven CWD cases in 2009. That's 57
percent more CWD cases from 29 percent fewer tests.
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- State legislators and DNR administrators should stop
ignoring or downplaying those trends. They should also quit pretending
there's a CWD barrier along the Illinois-Wisconsin border. One of the region's
worst CWD hotspots borders Interstate 39/90 on both sides of the state
line. Also, one of Illinois' new cases appeared in Jo Daviess County, which
is about as close to Mount Horeb's core CWD zone as it is to Illinois'
core zone near Rockford.
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- So, when folks suggest letting CWD "run its course,"
ask them to define the term. This disease shows no sign of hitting plateaus.
Do they believe CWD will act different in Illinois-Wisconsin whitetails
than in Wyoming's South Converse mule deer herd, the world's sickest herd?
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- CWD has increased in that herd almost yearly the past
decade, and 48 percent of its hunter-killed deer in 2010 were infected.
At the same time, muley numbers fell 50 percent, even without antlerless
harvests. It's now 56 percent below the 7,000 goal, and still dropping.
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- By ignoring facts and challenges, lawmakers and DNR administrators
ill-serve all Wisconsinites, including those they're now foolishly trying
to soothe. Such pathetic management makes it easier for USDA-APHIS to cut
CWD funding.
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- Contact Patrick Durkin, a free-lance outdoors writer,
at patrickdurkin@charter.net or write to him at 721 Wesley St.,
Waupaca, WI 54981.
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- http://host.madison.com/sports/recreation/outdoors/article_
d1583cde-7de2-11e0-ba06-001cc4c03286.html
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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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- Benjamin Franklin said, "They that
- can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve
- neither liberty nor safety."
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