- MADISON, Wis. (UPI) -- Federal
sharpshooters destroyed 118 deer on a southeastern Wisconsin game farm
in hopes the kill would prevent the further spread of chronic wasting disease.
-
- The deer belonged to James Hirshboeck and the shootings
were the first such action taken in the state. Court documents indicate
140 deer on another farm are to be destroyed around the first of the year
although a suit is pending to prevent the slaughter. Deer and elk on a
third farm also are targeted even though none of the animals has tested
positive for chronic wasting disease.
-
- The heads from the animals killed in this week's shooting
will be tested for signs of CWD, which destroys the nervous system and
produces spongy pockets in the brain.
-
- Agriculture Department spokeswoman Donna Gilson Friday
said the shootings began early Wednesday and the head removal was completed
by sunset.
-
- Hirschboeck's herd was condemned after one of the deer
on his farm tested positive in September for the disease, which resembles
scrapie in sheep, mad cow in cattle and a variant of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease
in humans.
-
- "It was kind of weird, watching them as they died,"
Hirschboeck told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, adding some of the animals
were as old as 15 and unlikely to have had the disease.
-
- Forty-four wild deer have tested positive for the disease
in a 411-square-mile eradication zone designated by the state in Dane,
Iowa and Sauk counties.
-
- Hirschboeck said if his deer test negative for the disease,
he plans to resume his business in a year. The state has said it would
reimburse him up to $1,500 per deer although he valued some of the animals
as high as $30,000.
-
- Chronic wasting disease first was discovered in Colorado
in 1967 at a research facility but did not turn up in wild herds until
1981. It first appeared east of the Mississippi River this year, in Wisconsin
in February and west of the Continental Divide in November.
-
- The disease also has been found in captive deer populations
in Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Minnesota in the
United States, in Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada, and in wild populations
in South Dakota, Nebraska and New Mexico. One infected wild deer believed
escaped from a Wisconsin game farm turned up in Illinois.
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- Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:15:06 -0800
- To: jr@rense.com, images2rense@arkansas.net, nde@ipa.net
- From: jr@rense.com
- Subject: COMMMENT for Captive Deer Herd Destroyed
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- Comment
-
- From Patricia Doyle, PhD
- dr_p_doyle@hotmail.com
- 12-15-2
-
- Hello Jeff...
-
- Wow, in reading this so many thoughts came to mind as
well as the overwhelming SADNESS in the destruction of these "dear"
and sweet animals (dear-deer spelling intended).
-
- First of all shooting them opens pandora's box for spread
if any are infected. I cannot understand WHY, IF they believe the herd
or part thereof to be infected, WHY shoot them which would spread blood
and body fluids etc over the environment. If they are infected, why would
they not be captured and "disposed" of in biosafety. To my thinking,
the more they kill, in this manner, the more the disease will spread.
-
- Next:
-
- The areas mentioned regarding CWD - aren't they areas
where there was/is large biotech crop farming? The areas in Canada, if
I remember correctly, had a problem with GM crops spreading wildly. Also,
isn't Wisconsin the state that monitors CJD, et al? Colorado has numerous
labs, Iowa is home to Plum Island's sister lab APHIS/USDA. Just thinking
out loud...
-
- If I lived in any of the areas where suspected prion
disease animals were being "shot" on the spot, thus spreading
prion disease, I would be out there picketing and raising hell! This is
totally unsafe.
-
- Jeff, do you remember when we discussed the Vermont Sheep?
The USDA, etc, went to a great extent to be sure that the sheep were quarantined
and then culled SAFELY, according to biosafety -- I think level 4. Why
the heck are they shooting these poor animals on the spot? This is extremely
dangerous. We need to really get this to the public forefront. Well,
then I think back to the caller from (was it Wisconsin?) who did not seem
too concerned about the shooting and spreading of prions in the environment
in her area. Maybe people just do not care, or maybe they believe the medical
community and government spin.
-
- It would be interesting to monitor the increase in prion
disease cases in and around the "kill area." My guess is that
sCJD and other misfolding protein illnesses will rise dramatically over
the next 5 + years.
-
- Probably, there will be cases of "mad squirrels"
and minks, etc, etc in the kill area as well. Then we will hear about
geese, scavenger bird die offs. Oh, I forgot, the "experts"
claim that fish, fowl, etc cannot get mad "cow." In my opinion,
any form of life that has proteins can get "mad cow". And any
form of life with a 'BRAIN' is certainly a potential victim.
-
- There was never a diagnosis for the Brant Geese die-off.
It is possible that novel species who become prion-infected, might have
a thorough die-off (as happened in the Brant case). We know that in normal
human disease, such as was the case with Native north and south Americans
who came in contact with white Europeans, there were complete die-offs
of entire villages from European diseases. In some cases, even measles
killed native indigenous peoples because they had no natural immunities
to new, 'novel' diseases. Perhaps, we see this with species that have
never experienced prion diseases. Just thinking out loud again.
-
- So goes my two cents worth.
-
- Patty
-
-
- Comment
-
- From: jr@rense.com
- To: "Patricia Doyle, PhD" <dr_p_doyle@hotmail.com>
- Subject: CWD
- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:24:35 -0800
-
- Hi...
-
- notice this graph:
-
- "Hirschboeck's herd was condemned after one of the
deer on his farm tested positive in September for the disease, which resembles
scrapie in sheep, mad cow in cattle and a variant of
- Creutzfeld-Jakob disease in humans."
-
- they are getting closer to admitting they are all the
same basic disease.
-
-
- Captive Deer Herd Destroyed
-
- 12-15-2
-
-
- MADISON, Wis. (UPI) -- Federal
sharpshooters destroyed 118 deer on a
- southeastern Wisconsin game farm in hopes the kill would
prevent the
- further spread of chronic wasting disease.
-
- The deer belonged to James Hirshboeck and the shootings
were the
- first such action taken in the state. Court documents
indicate 140
- deer on another farm are to be destroyed around the first
of the
- year although a suit is pending to prevent the slaughter.
Deer and
- elk on a third farm also are targeted even though none
of the
- animals has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.
-
- The heads from the animals killed in this week's shooting
will be
- tested for signs of CWD, which destroys the nervous system
and
- produces spongy pockets in the brain.
-
- Agriculture Department spokeswoman Donna Gilson Friday
said the
- shootings began early Wednesday and the head removal
was completed
- by sunset.
-
- Hirschboeck's herd was condemned after one of the deer
on his farm
- tested positive in September for the disease, which resembles
- scrapie in sheep, mad cow in cattle and a variant of
- Creutzfeld-Jakob disease in humans.
-
- "It was kind of weird, watching them as they died,"
Hirschboeck told
- the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, adding some of the animals
were as
- old as 15 and unlikely to have had the disease.
-
- Forty-four wild deer have tested positive for the disease
in a
- 411-square-mile eradication zone designated by the state
in Dane,
- Iowa and Sauk counties.
-
- Hirschboeck said if his deer test negative for the disease,
he plans
- to resume his business in a year. The state has said
it would
- reimburse him up to $1,500 per deer although he valued
some of the
- animals as high as $30,000.
-
- Chronic wasting disease first was discovered in Colorado
in 1967 at
- a research facility but did not turn up in wild herds
until 1981. It
- first appeared east of the Mississippi River this year,
in Wisconsin
- in February and west of the Continental Divide in November.
-
- The disease also has been found in captive deer populations
in
- Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and
Minnesota in
- the United States, in Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada,
and in
- wild populations in South Dakota, Nebraska and New Mexico.
One
- infected wild deer believed escaped from a Wisconsin
game farm
- turned up in Illinois.
-
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