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Is that chronic wasting disease or you just happy to hang me in the basement;...
Six members of Congress are urging federal agricultural officials to ban the interstate movement of captive deer, saying a national industry that breeds bucks to be shot as trophies in “canned” hunts...
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First partially successful vaccine developed against prion disease in deer
Investigators at the New York University School of Medicine have developed a weakly successful vaccine against Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in white-tailed deer[1]. CWD is a prion disease which is...
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‘Disease from outer space’ States confront the spread of CWD in deer
In March, 1996, the UK government confirmed what had been known for years: bovine spongiform encephalopathy (or mad cow disease) was killing humans in the UK. The various forms of transmissible...
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Wonderin: Using wolves as first responders against CWD
I didn’t blog for the last two months. I haven’t done that in 16 years. I haven’t done that ever. Throw in the news and I haven’t done it, ever, in 28 years. Only once have I ever stopped daily writing...
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Origins of CWD in Europe
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a relentless epidemic disorder caused by infectious prions that threatens the survival of cervid populations and raises increasing public health concerns in North...
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