- Hello Jeff -
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- The moderator brings up a good point as commentary to
this article. He points out that deer have been videotaped eating internal
organs from deer that had been 'field dressed' by hunters. In theory,
maybe this action of gutting deer in the wild might be one that serves
to spread the disease. If a deer consumes the guts of a CWD infected deer
that deer would then get the disease.
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- Chronic Wasting Disease Found In 8 Alberta Deer
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- By Hanneke Brooymans
- The Calgary Herald
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- 3-21-9
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- A total of 8 new cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD)
in wild deer were found as part of the 2008 fall surveillance for the disease.
The new cases were found among the 4347 deer heads that have been tested
since 1 Sep 2008. Of those animals, 7 were shot by hunters, and one was
a road-kill collected by Fish and Wildlife staff along the Alberta-Saskatchewan
border; 7 of them were mule deer and one was white-tailed.
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- Two deer were detected in Canadian Forces Base Wainwright,
which is the farthest west the disease has been detected in wild deer in
Alberta to date. This means the disease has penetrated at least 75 kilometres
[46.6 miles] into Alberta and is about 170 km [105.6 miles] east of Edmonton.
The remaining 6 cases were detected near past positive cases. This means
a total of 61 CWD cases have been found in wild deer in Alberta since 2005.
The province has used deer killed by hunters to test for CWD.
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- In addition, over the last 3 years the province has held
a winter control program that culled deer in a 10-kilometre radius around
any area where a positive deer was found, and thinned herds in select locations.
This program, conducted in the 1st 3 months of the year, found progressively
larger numbers of positive CWD cases.
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- The province decided not to proceed this year, saying
it was stepping back from that aspect of the program in order to reassess
it and analyze the results. Staff are now conducting post-hunting-season
aerial surveys to count deer near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border (including
CFB Wainwright) in order to plan future disease-management programs.
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- http://www.calgaryherald.com/Technology/Chronic+wasting+
- disease+found+Alberta+deer/1414563/story.html
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- Communicated by
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- Unfortunately so little is known about the transmission
of CWD. However, there are several video and publications demonstrating
deer consuming guts of other deer that have been killed and gutted. It
stands to reason that if the disease is in the gut, and presents to the
neurological system through the gut, then consumption of guts could spread
the disease to other deer. So, hunters may actually be the cause of the
spread of the disease. - Mod.TG
- Alberta, in western Canada, can be located on the
- HealthMap/ProMED-mail interactive map at
- http://healthmap.org/promed?v=55.4,-101.9,4 - CopyEd.MJ
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural
Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases"
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- http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also my
new website:
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