A monthly roundup of the top news, research, and events about chronic wasting disease. 
 

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CIDRAP CWD Monthly Newsletter - March 2023
This edition highlights news, updates, and information from February 2023 including a proof-of-concept study using dogs to detect the presence of CWD and major problems facing mule deer, and more 

CIDRAP CWD Monthly Newsletter - February 2023
This edition highlights news, updates, and information from January 2023 including a nationwide shortage of CWD tests, a study about the financial cost of CWD, a new two-part documentary film about CWD, a novel CWD prion strain identified in a moose, and more 

CIDRAP CWD Monthly Newsletter - January 2023
This edition highlights news, updates, and information from December 2022 including CWD funding in the federal omnibus spending bill, a CWD video series, working dogs detecting CWD, a new CWD coalition, and more 

CIDRAP CWD Monthly Newsletter - December 2022
This edition highlights news, updates, and information from November 2022 including the first wild CWD detection in Minnesota's Beltrami County, and more 

CIDRAP CWD Monthly Newsletter – November 2022
This edition highlights news, updates, and information from October 2022 including a recent poll of US voters related to CWD, funding for CWD control and prevention from the US Department of Agriculture, and more 

CIDRAP CWD Monthly Newsletter – October 2022
This edition highlights news, updates, and information from September 2022 about recent CWD studies, National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center funding, continuing research for potential CWD vaccines and therapeutics, and more 

CIDRAP CWD Monthly Newsletter – September 2022
This edition covers information from August 2022 including a study involving transgenic mice on potential risk of CWD transmission to humans, the intersection of CWD research and management, hunting season reminders, and more

CIDRAP CWD Monthly Newsletter – August 2022
This edition covers information from July 2022 including an article on dogs trained to sniff CWD in the field, new funding from Alberta Innovates to support collaborative research, government actions and reports on CWD, and more

CIDRAP CWD Monthly Newsletter – July 2022
This edition covers information from June 2022 including an article explaining CWD, new funding in Minnesota to expand CWD research, government actions and reports on CWD, and more

CIDRAP CWD Monthly Newsletter – June 2022
This edition covers information from April and May 2022 including the introduction of the CWD Research and Management Act in the US Senate, state and provincial reports on CWD results from the 2021-22 hunting seasons, and more

CIDRAP CWD Monthly Newsletter – March 2022
First detection of CWD in North Carolina, proposed hunting season rule changes and CWD response plan updates at the state level, increased CWD management funds at the US federal level, and more

CIDRAP CWD Monthly Newsletter – February 2022
Considerations for revising cervid farm rules and changes to hunting seasons, the pending CWD bill in US Congress and its implications, CWD surveillance results, and more

CIDRAP CWD Monthly Newsletter – December 2021 & January 2022
First detections of CWD in Alabama and Louisiana, additional support for CWD research, additional cases documented in farmed and wild cervids across North America, and more

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