Data on chronic wasting disease sampling in Wyoming's large game animals for 2022 suggests a slow rise, with the disease spreading from east to west.
A review and meta-analysis of point-prevalence surveys conducted in Asia over the past two decades found concerning levels of resistance to first-line and last-resort antibiotics in foodborne pathogens isolated from aquatic animals, researchers reported late last week in Nature Communications.
A wild deer exhibiting signs of CWD tested positive for the fatal prion disease in mid-March.
Four white-tailed deer tested positive for the fatal neurodegenerative disease.
The 3-year-old buck was found dead in the town of Wautoma, within 10 miles of the Marquette and Portage county borders.
The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources confirmed the fatal prion disease in a buck harvested by a hunter in November 2023.
The infection in a 2-year-old doe was found during mandatory postmortem CWD surveillance testing.
The case raises the number of states with documented chronic wasting disease in deer and other cervids to 35.
The dogs were able to identify infected deer through feces samples.
The 2-year-old white-tailed doe tested positive during required CWD postmortem surveillance.
CWD prions (misfolded proteins) were found in a county scrape, or area that bucks defoliate by pawing, in June.
The buck was harvested during the opening weekend of firearms season in Deer Permit Area 271, along Minnesota's border with South Dakota.
The affected buck was harvested by a hunter on November 19 in the southeast corner of the reservation, which is located in northeastern Wisconsin.
The affected animals were a mule deer buck harvested north of Columbus and a male white-tailed deer west of Nye.
The infected bull was transported to Idaho in March 2023 from Alberta, and the Canadian ranch later confirmed a CWD-positive elk.
The disease was confirmed in a dead cow elk near Jackson, Wyoming, and a hunter-harvested deer in Alabama's Colbert County.
Roberts County is located in the Texas Panhandle, a 26-county region in the northernmost part of the state bordered by New Mexico and Oklahoma.
CWD was first detected in wild deer in Idaho in 2021 and the following year in wild elk.
The finding triggered the renewal of baiting and feeding bans in 2 counties.
The 3.5-year-old white-tailed doe was housed on a high-fence ranch in the central Texas county.
The infected 1-year-old buck was harvested November 23 on private land less than 10 miles from borders with Calumet and Sheboygan counties.
The deer was in the Hog Heaven Management Zone of the reservation, located in the western part of the state.
The animal was found dead on the Scab Creek Feedground in Elk Hunt Area 98 at the end of December.
The buck was harvested in Millbrook Township in the west-central part of the state.
Louisiana's case is the first in Jefferson Davis Parish, and the Washington case is its second and is near the first.
