CWD

[Multidigits]

There was a pretty good report on CWD in Sunday's Courier Journal, by Gary Grath. It quotes Gassett and details Kentucky's plan to test this year.

[GSP]

How are they planning to test?

[Multidigits]

There is no test available at this time for live animals. They plan to test 1000 deer and elk total, so it will just be a small percentage of the total kill.

[GSP]

I meant to ask, "how are they going to sample"? Are they going to set up "check stations"? visit packing houses? taxidermist?
Does anyone know how long they can detect the prions(sp?) in the tissue of dead deer?

[MULESKINNER]

If anyone knows how to get a copy of the article I would sure like to see it.
Did it say anything about its origins?

[Strutter]

Muleskinner, punch in courier journal on a search engine. I bet they have it online.

[Multidigits]

You can go to the Bowsite forum and click on a link that RLB posted under the CWD thread.

You can also take a look at a link that shows that the Dept. HAS transported elk from a CWD confirmed state--in particular New Mexico. They "coralled" the elk in unches of 60-70 and tested them. I guess for everything except CWD, which can't be tested on live animals. Unless something has changed since that time, we have at least 190 animals from a CWD confirmed state. Does this seem like a problem of holding a double standard to anyone beside me???

[rlb165]

http://www.courier-journal.com/cjsports/news2002/07/14/sp071402s241453.htm

Muleskinner, here is the link to the CJ article.

[Flintlock54]

Multi:

My best information sources (May 2002) says that New Mexico has not tested positive for CWD. However we have imported some from Kansas in the past and they have had Elk (captive) test positive. I'm sure if the KDFWR had known that they were positive tested Elk in Kansas they would not have used that state as an import site.

[rlb165]

http://www.gmfsh.state.nm.us/PageMill_TExt/Publication/6-19-02nr.html

Flintlock54, here is a link to the NM story.

[Flintlock54]

Gentlemen:

I stand corrected. Thanks for the link rlb165.

[shogan]

By the way the question was asked how long can they test for cwd. The prions just exist they don't die because they aren't alive. You can't kill them or cook them etc. If an animal dies that has the prion the prions go in to the soil if another animal or plant abosorbs the prion it's passed along. They are already here in squirrels (seems like I read an ariticle about them in Western KY and a squirell hunter dieing from it sorry don't recall the source it was from a night of searching on it). I also read where they have found it in fish. Of course cattle over in Europe. Basically after much time reading about it I decided it's already everywhere. And exponential expounded by feeding ground up animals (emphasis on brain and spinal cord)to other animals a practice that occurs in pen raised deer/eld because there are not laws yet restricting this practice. There was a tribe in Africa that would eat the brains of the people who died. Well the entire tribe essentially had this condition. (See I did learn somthing in school)

Lesson learned Don't eat the brains. "Seems like squirrell hunters eat a lot of squirrell brains with their eggs"

I'm no scientist and might be confused on some of my fact hell maybe all of them but thats my two cents worth and that's why it's worth two cents.

[rlb165]

Add Minnesota to the list of CWD states.

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/mammals/deer/cwd_bahnewsrelease.html

[FW OFFICER]

According to the latest issue of Guns and Gear magazine, there is now a live test for CWD. It was developed by Colorado State university and is now in use in New Mexico by the Wildlife Dept. The procedure is similar to a tonsilectomy and the tested deer is tagged/ has a transmitter placed on it, and released. The test is then sent to the lab and if the results show positive, the animal can be tracked down by transmitter signal. The spokesperson said New Mexico chose this plan, even though it is very expensive, rather than killing the animals, because they didn't have the number of animals that some other states had.

[Multidigits]

http://www.cwd-info.org/index.php/fuseaction/news.detail/ID/644b1b31123c52c75a187a6f97945cc2

[Marcus]

Hey guys,
Not to stir the pot, but a very close friend whom works on Addingon Enterprises Starfire jobsite in Perry County told me several elk have died recently. The remains were hauled away by fish and wildlife. Has anyone else heard of this? Brain worms are supposed to occur more randomly aren't they?

[Multidigits]

Several elk have died since the project started, so that is not unusual in it's self. All dead elk are tested for CWD and to date none have turned up positive.

[bigblueswami]

Is there any real reason for it? I wouldn't think they would have to build up immunity for area disease but maybe so.