Minnesota's leading authority on chronic wasting disease (CWD) wants deer hunters and landowners to fight harder against the disease despite signs that expanded hunting has chipped away at CWD's prevalence in Fillmore County.
"That's when you put the pressure on … not take it off,'' said Lou Cornicelli, wildlife research manager for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
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A new blood test can detect even tiny amounts of infectious proteins called prions, two new studies show.
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The BC government is warning about a potential spread of the deer-killing chronic wasting disease into the province and is calling on hunters in the Peace and East Kootenay regions to help scientists in monitoring the province’s deer population.
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More bad news for meat-lovers: a new study links consumption of animal-based proteins to an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
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Food safety recalls and animal cruelty are increasing under government abdication of public health duties.
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Prions -- the infectious, deformed proteins that cause chronic wasting disease in deer -- can be taken up by plants such as alfalfa, corn and tomatoes, according to new research from the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison.
Read moreIt has been over ten years since Wisconsin endured a kind of deer holocaust. The terminal deer and elk disease, chronic wasting disease (CWD), descended upon its deer population with such vengeance officials declared "CWD eradication" zones in which fauns and does would be killed before bucks.
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