Study shows susceptibility of CWD among deer

[dgibson]

From the NSSF Bullet Points ( http://www.nssf.org/bulletpoints ): <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>A University of Wisconsin-Madison study suggests that virtually all deer are prone to the fatal Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The new study underscores the seriousness of the disease, and the difficulty the state faces in attempting to eradicate it from the wild deer herd, according to Judd Aiken, the study's senior author and a professor of animal health and biomedical sciences at UW-Madison's School of Veterinary Medicine. "Most deer out there are susceptible to the disease," says Aiken, a leading authority on diseases caused by prions, which are nearly indestructible infectious proteins implicated as the cause of CWD. "These findings don't mean we're not going to be able to stop the disease, but it tells us we certainly can't count on genetic barriers to slow it down." Results of the study mean that there is little hope that the state's wild deer herd would, over time and through natural attrition, build genetic resistance to the disease.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>(Emphasis added)

MY OPINION: Yuk.

Will this be the AIDS of the deer family?

 

[Lostagain]

hopefully its more like cancer (noncontagous), instead of contagous like AIDS.
Doesn't sound like good news tho.

 

[Oak]

We will soon know how CWD is transmitted from deer to deer, and I will tell you I don't think it's like cancer. I was talking to Mike Miller, the leading CWD researcher in CO, the other day and he said that they will be publishing a paper later this year on CWD transmission. He couldn't tell me what was going to be in the paper, for obvious reasons.

I would like to see Wisconsin's study mentioned in the story. It's hard to believe that there isn't some animals with resistance to the disease. For instance, the DOW here has recently discovered that buck mule deer are about twice as likely to be infected as does. Perhaps it isn't because of resistance or no resistance, but rather behavior in does that limits exposure. Time will tell...

Oak

 

[ELKCHSR]

I would like the new info, as I am sure you all will post it when it becomes available, I have been amasing quite a bit of data that has been collected from those on this board over the last year and a half on both or all sides of this issue from you all. That doesn't mean I have saved any thing that was or is speculated or debated. Only the theory's as those have been presented...