Post by flounder9 on Apr 20, 2012 11:38:20 GMT -5
GOOD NEWS FOR INDIANA 2011 CWD SURVEILLANCE
Chronic Wasting Disease
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is one of a group of diseases called Transmissible Spongiform Encepalopathies, which is a variant of scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. The agents of CWD are called prions which are abnormal, proteaseresistant forms of cellular proteins normally synthesized in the central nervous system and lymphoid tissues. Prions that cause CWD are highly resistant to heat or disinfectant. No study has ever proven that CWD is transmissible to humans.
CWD has been reported in Wisconsin, Illinois, West Virginia, and most recently Missouri, among other states. In 2002, Indiana created a monitoring program to detect the presence of CWD, which focused on removing the obex or the retropharyngeal gland from random hunter harvested deer throughout the state, deemed active surveillance. Reports of outwardly noticeable sick deer have also been tested, named targeted surveillance. This monitoring continues today, and well as testing random samples of road killed deer which was instituted in 2007.
Results from the Division of Fish and Wildlife’s 2011 CWD sampling failed to detect the presence of CWD in 869 deer sampled from hunter harvested and road killed deer. CWD has not been detected in over 12,200 deer during this monitoring period.
www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/files/fw-2011_Deer_Season_Summary.pdf
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Oppose Indiana House Bill 1265 game farming cervids
chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2012/02/oppose-indiana-house-bill-1265-game.html
chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/
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Chronic Wasting Disease
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is one of a group of diseases called Transmissible Spongiform Encepalopathies, which is a variant of scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. The agents of CWD are called prions which are abnormal, proteaseresistant forms of cellular proteins normally synthesized in the central nervous system and lymphoid tissues. Prions that cause CWD are highly resistant to heat or disinfectant. No study has ever proven that CWD is transmissible to humans.
CWD has been reported in Wisconsin, Illinois, West Virginia, and most recently Missouri, among other states. In 2002, Indiana created a monitoring program to detect the presence of CWD, which focused on removing the obex or the retropharyngeal gland from random hunter harvested deer throughout the state, deemed active surveillance. Reports of outwardly noticeable sick deer have also been tested, named targeted surveillance. This monitoring continues today, and well as testing random samples of road killed deer which was instituted in 2007.
Results from the Division of Fish and Wildlife’s 2011 CWD sampling failed to detect the presence of CWD in 869 deer sampled from hunter harvested and road killed deer. CWD has not been detected in over 12,200 deer during this monitoring period.
www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/files/fw-2011_Deer_Season_Summary.pdf
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Oppose Indiana House Bill 1265 game farming cervids
chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2012/02/oppose-indiana-house-bill-1265-game.html
chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/
TSS