New CWD Test
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Miranda Huang of the Mississippi State University Deer Lab reported on her efforts to detect CWD prions in whitetail scrapes. She sampled 99 scrapes in a CWD zone in southwest Tennessee, and 54 of them (55%) tested positive for CWD prions using RT-QuIC.
Miranda collected soil from the scrapes and clipped the tips of the licking branches above the scrapes for testing, since prions are shed by infected deer in both urine and saliva. Of all 99 scrapes tested, 35% of them contained CWD prions on the licking branch only, 14% in the soil only, and 6% in both soil and on the licking branch.
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Miranda collected soil from the scrapes and clipped the tips of the licking branches above the scrapes for testing, since prions are shed by infected deer in both urine and saliva. Of all 99 scrapes tested, 35% of them contained CWD prions on the licking branch only, 14% in the soil only, and 6% in both soil and on the licking branch.
3 Promising New Ways to Detect CWD, Dead Deer Not Required
A series of new tools could give us the ability to detect chronic wasting disease in deer populations without relying on deer harvest.
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Interesting and scary at the same timeMiranda Huang of the Mississippi State University Deer Lab reported on her efforts to detect CWD prions in whitetail scrapes. She sampled 99 scrapes in a CWD zone in southwest Tennessee, and 54 of them (55%) tested positive for CWD prions using RT-QuIC.
Miranda collected soil from the scrapes and clipped the tips of the licking branches above the scrapes for testing, since prions are shed by infected deer in both urine and saliva. Of all 99 scrapes tested, 35% of them contained CWD prions on the licking branch only, 14% in the soil only, and 6% in both soil and on the licking branch.
3 Promising New Ways to Detect CWD, Dead Deer Not Required
A series of new tools could give us the ability to detect chronic wasting disease in deer populations without relying on deer harvest.
YikesMiranda Huang of the Mississippi State University Deer Lab reported on her efforts to detect CWD prions in whitetail scrapes. She sampled 99 scrapes in a CWD zone in southwest Tennessee, and 54 of them (55%) tested positive for CWD prions using RT-QuIC.
Miranda collected soil from the scrapes and clipped the tips of the licking branches above the scrapes for testing, since prions are shed by infected deer in both urine and saliva. Of all 99 scrapes tested, 35% of them contained CWD prions on the licking branch only, 14% in the soil only, and 6% in both soil and on the licking branch.
3 Promising New Ways to Detect CWD, Dead Deer Not Required
A series of new tools could give us the ability to detect chronic wasting disease in deer populations without relying on deer harvest.
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