Chronic Wasting Disease Monthly News

Chronic Wasting Disease Monthly News

Welcome to the latest CIDRAP Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Monthly Newsletter. Here’s what happened in January 2023:

Bull moose walking through snowy field

News Stories Worth Noting

Diagnostic laboratories nationwide are experiencing significant testing delays for CWD due to a national shortage of test kits, leading to delays for hunters.
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A recent US Geological Survey study offers the first nationwide understanding of the financial cost of CWD. Conservatively, it’s costing tens of millions of dollars per year.
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A Colorado Parks & Wildlife (CPW) news release announced a short, two-part documentary film titled “Seeing Is Believing" that is intended to increase awareness about CWD and help people “witness” the disease through the eyes of others. 
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US and Nordic researchers describe a novel CWD prion strain from a moose in Finland that's distinct not only from CWD prions in North America but also from those in neighboring Norway.
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State and Provincial News Updates

Alberta

Unstable funding threatens ‘zombie deer’ research in the Prairies (The Toronto Star, Jan 9) [link]

Colorado

"Seeing is Believing" film series raises awareness about chronic wasting disease (Colorado Parks & Wildlife [CPW], Jan 11) [link]

Idaho

Idaho Fish and Game is carefully monitoring wintering big game in the Southeast Region (Idaho Fish and Game, Jan 25) [link]

Illinois
Feeding deer does more harm than good, forest preserve officials say (The Center Square, Jan 23) [link]

Louisiana

LDWF [Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries]: Five additional suspected cases of CWD discovered in Tensas Parish (LDWF, Jan 17) [link]

Manitoba

Backlogs stagnating disease testing in cervids (The Brandon Sun, Jan 6) [link]

Mississippi

Additional CWD positives found, samples stream in Louisiana, more needed across Mississippi (The Natchez Democrat, Jan 13) [link]

Ballard presents in-depth look at chronic wasting disease, Penny calls for action (The Natchez Democrat, Jan 25) [link

Missouri 

Missouri Department of Conservation [MDC] warns of chronic wasting disease in wildlife (WGEM, Jan 5) [link]

MDC announces regulation changes for 2022/23 deer season (KOAM News Now, Jan 15) [link]

MDC continuing efforts to contain CWD in deer (KRZK, Jan 30) [link]

CWD deer management planned at Prairie State Park (Missouri Department of Natural Resources [DNR], Jan 30) [link]

North Dakota

Overbroad baiting bill would hinder deer management, spread CWD (News Dakota, Jan 6) [link]

Hunting and fishing legislation (North Dakota Game and Fish, Jan 7) [link]

Deer baiting to be debated at legislature (The Dakotan, Jan 13) [link]

Bill would stop officials from banning deer baiting in North Dakota (The Bismarck Tribune, Jan 16) [link]

House Bill 1151, baiting for deer (Valley News Live, Jan 19) [link]

North Dakota lawmakers weigh pros and cons of deer baiting (KFYR, Jan 20) [link]

Participation needed in hunter harvest surveys (North Dakota Game and Fish, Jan 23) [link]

Hot topic: deer baiting bill; hundreds testify pro and con (The Dakotan, Jan 24) [link]

Pennsylvania

State game commissioners eye changes to antlerless deer license system, CWD rules (The Tribune-Democrat, Jan 31) [link]

  • Related highlights from the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners meeting (Pennsylvania Game Commission, Jan 28) [link]

South Dakota

Wind Cave National Park closes backcountry for elk management operation (US National Park Service, Jan 10) [link]

Tennessee
TWRA [Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency] requesting public input for hunting season regulations (TWRA, Jan 9) [link]

Nationwide test shortage causing CWD delays for hunters (TWRA, Jan 31) [link]

Virginia

Chronic wasting disease detected for the first time in Fairfax County (Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources [DWR], Jan 17) [link]

Wisconsin

Retired UW wildlife professor ponders CWD’s impact on deer hunting (Watertown Daily Times, Jan 25) [link]

DNR confirms first CWD detection in wild deer harvested in Waupaca County (Wisconsin DNR, Jan 26) [link]

Recent CWD Literature

Chiavacci SJ. The economic costs of chronic wasting disease in the United States. PLOS One 2022 (published online Dec 8)

Clement MJ, Justice-Allen A, Heale JD. Optimal risk-based allocation of disease surveillance effort for clustered disease outbreaks. Prev Vet Med 2023 (published online Jan 5)

Kraft CN, Denkers ND, Mathiason CK, et al. Longitudinal detection of prion shedding in nasal secretions of CWD-infected white-tailed deer. (Short communication) J Gen Virol 2023 (published online Jan 27)

Miller CA, Vaske JJ. How state agencies are managing chronic wasting disease. Hum Dimens Wildl 2023 Jan 2;28(1):93-102

Mysterud A, Rivrud IM, Brekkum Ø, et al. Effect of legal regulation of supplemental feeding on space use of red deer in an area with chronic wasting disease. Eur J Wildl Res 2022 (published online Dec 12) 

Mysterud A, Viljugrein H, Hopp P, et al. Challenges and opportunities using hunters to monitor chronic wasting disease among wild reindeer in the digital era. Ecol Solut Evid 2023 (published online Jan 17)

Ness A, Aiken J, McKenzie D. Sheep scrapie and deer rabies in England prior to 1800. (Commentaries and Views) Prion 2023 (published online Jan 18)

Spitzer R, Åström C, Felton A, et al. Coprophagy in moose: a first observation. Ecol Evol 2023 (published online Jan 19)

Sun JL, Kim S, Crowell J, et al. Novel prion strain as cause of chronic wasting disease in a moose, Finland. Emerg Infect Dis 2023 (published online Jan 13)

Xie L, Adamowicz W, Lloyd-Smith P. Spatial and temporal responses to incentives: an application to wildlife disease management. J Environ Econ Manage 2023 Jan 1;117:102752

Zou WQ, Gambetti P. Prions and diseases. 2nd ed. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2023

 


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Disclaimer: The items listed here are not meant to be an endorsement by the CWD Resource Center or CIDRAP

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