CWD in Minnesota

[lakevet]

Fact: Healthy deer exposed to CWD infected deer get CWD.

Fact: Healthy deer exposed to areas contaminated by CWD infected deer get CWD.

Fact: CWD is infectious and contagious.

Fact: CWD is shed in urine, saliva and feces of infected deer.

Fact: CWD is always fatal to the infected deer.

Fact: In some long term CWD areas the prevalence is up to 30% of the deer are infected.

CWD is infectious and contagious. And always fatal.

So some think we should ignore it until more is known.

Others think we go forward with our best effort and knowledge to improve the health of the deer herd (which belongs to all not the landowner, we are not under the King's rule where he owned the land and the wildlife) while simultaneously working on better understanding of the disease and better tools to deal with it.

Carry on!

lakevet

Here is another link.

www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/fact_sheets/pdfs/cwd/CWDFactsheet2007.pdf

[jkcmj]

Fact: Healthy deer exposed to CWD infected deer get CWD.

Fact: Healthy deer exposed to areas contaminated by CWD infected deer get CWD.

Fact: CWD is infectious and contagious.

Fact: CWD is shed in urine, saliva and feces of infected deer.

Fact: CWD is always fatal to the infected deer.

Fact: In some long term CWD areas the prevalence is up to 30% of the deer are infected.

CWD is infectious and contagious. And always fatal.

So some think we should ignore it until more is known.

Others think we go forward with our best effort and knowledge to improve the health of the deer herd (which belongs to all not the landowner, we are not under the King's rule where he owned the land and the wildlife) while simultaneously working on better understanding of the disease and better tools to deal with it.

Carry on!

lakevet

Here is another link.

www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/fact_sheets/pdfs/cwd/CWDFactsheet2007.pdf

This is getting rediculous!

In the Pine Island case, Elk were fenced in an enclosure, where animals were fed as a group and in very concentrated numbers. No animals had been added to the enclosure for over 5 years prior to finding the deseased elk. Incubation is supposedly 18-24 months. Only 4 of the elk in the enclosure tested positive after continuous exposure for 5 years to infected animals, and thousands of droppings/saliva/urine from those infected animals. Obviously the transmission of the disease from animal to animal is unlikely, even in concentrated herds, with supplemental feeding. That is a proven fact!

The only two "facts" listed above are the last two, which only apply to tested deer, and are not necessarily representative of the population as a whole.

Look at all of the scientific evidence in the links provided by Lakevet, and you will find that everything is theory or guesses right now, even after 50 years of study.

Looking at the PineIsland Elk farm alone shows how slow moving and unlikely animal to animal transmission of the disease is. More study with live animals is needed obviously, before anything is considered "fact".

[lakevet]

This is getting rediculous!

In the Pine Island case, Elk were fenced in an enclosure, where animals were fed as a group and in very concentrated numbers. No animals had been added to the enclosure for over 5 years prior to finding the deseased elk. Incubation is supposedly 18-24 months. Only 4 of the elk in the enclosure tested positive after continuous exposure for 5 years to infected animals, and thousands of droppings/saliva/urine from those infected animals. Obviously the transmission of the disease from animal to animal is unlikely, even in concentrated herds, with supplemental feeding. That is a proven fact!

The only two "facts" listed above are the last two, which only apply to tested deer, and are not necessarily representative of the population as a whole.

Look at all of the scientific evidence in the links provided by Lakevet, and you will find that everything is theory or guesses right now, even after 50 years of study.

Looking at the PineIsland Elk farm alone shows how slow moving and unlikely animal to animal transmission of the disease is. More study with live animals is needed obviously, before anything is considered "fact".

[ERdeerhunter]

Fact: Healthy deer exposed to CWD infected deer get CWD.

Fact: Healthy deer exposed to areas contaminated by CWD infected deer get CWD.

Fact: CWD is infectious and contagious.

Fact: CWD is shed in urine, saliva and feces of infected deer.

Fact: CWD is always fatal to the infected deer.

Fact: In some long term CWD areas the prevalence is up to 30% of the deer are infected.

CWD is infectious and contagious. And always fatal.

So some think we should ignore it until more is known.

Others think we go forward with our best effort and knowledge to improve the health of the deer herd (which belongs to all not the landowner, we are not under the King's rule where he owned the land and the wildlife) while simultaneously working on better understanding of the disease and better tools to deal with it.

Carry on!

lakevet

Here is another link.

www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/fact_sheets/pdfs/cwd/CWDFactsheet2007.pdf

Fact: H1Nl is contagious

Fact: H1N1 affects humans

Fact: H1N1 was completely overhyped

Opinion: We are about to uncover another completely overhyped condition. How long has CWD been known in Wisconsin? I have yet to see their deer herd population collapse.