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Saturday, April 10, 2004 8:48 AM

[Mr_Tracys_Corner] All you Hunters out there EAT VENISON and DIE A

Horrible Death!

 

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CWD Mad Deer Update -

Bad And Getting Worse

From Patricia Doyle, PhD

dr_p_doyle

4-9-4

 

 

Many states do not have budgets to include surveillance for Chronic

Wasting Disease. New York is one of those States. I was unable to get any

State Wildlife assistance in regard to a deer that exhibited neurological

symptoms consistant with CWD. The Wildlife Pathologist would test for CWD,

however, I would have to do the entire procedure of finding, killing,

decapitating and sending of fthe deer head to pathology. Given the fact that

CWD is spreading from State to State so rapidly, CWD research is important.

 

Patricia

 

[1] 8 Apr 2004 ProMED-mail <promed

Source: The Billings Gazette [edited]

<http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1 & display

=rednews/2004/04/07/build/state/20-chronic-wasting.inc>

 

 

Wildlife disease experts seek aid; chronic wasting disease called

threat to regional economy

 

Experts in chronic wasting disease told members of the US Senate on

Tuesday that states are digging deep into their own pockets because the

federal government is not spending enough to monitor and research the

illness.

 

They told members of a Senate Environment and Public Works

subcommittee that lawmakers don't need to create new organizations to fight

the deer and elk disease -- instead, they should get out their checkbooks.

" Federal and state agencies involved in this endeavor concur that,

collectively, all the authorities that are necessary to manage this disease

currently exist in law, " said Gary Taylor, who is the legislative director

for the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. " What is

most needed are adequate congressional appropriations to the federal

agencies involved both for their efforts and to pass through to the state,

fish and wildlife agencies, state universities and state agriculture

departments, to manage CWD, " he said.

 

Missoula resident and Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance project

leader Gary Wolfe told lawmakers that states are siphoning money from other

priorities to combat chronic wasting disease, a transmissible neurological

disease that produces small lesions in the brains of infected animals. " The

CWD Alliance is particularly concerned that this redirection of limited

wildlife agency funds is not adequate to address the CWD issue, and will

have negative impacts on other important wildlife management and

conservation programs, " Wolfe said.

 

Cases of chronic wasting disease were first identified in Wyoming in

the late 1960s, and the disease was identified as a transmissible spongiform

encephalopathy (TSE) in 1978. It is similar to bovine spongiform

encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, and the sheep

disease scrapie. Although chronic wasting disease is contagious among deer

and elk, there has been no evidence of transmission from deer and elk to

humans, cattle or other domestic livestock.

 

E Tom Thorne, who is a veterinarian and wildlife disease consultant

for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, said CWD efforts are drawing

department personnel away from other priorities. " It's a big area of

concern, " Thorne said. " Probably a multitude of programs are suffering. CWD

monitoring is very manpower-intensive. They had to call on game wardens and

hatchery personnel and basically everyone to pitch in. If there was a warden

collecting CWD samples, he wasn't out there patrolling. "

 

Senators were told that USD 52 million has been spent for monitoring

and research of chronic wasting disease since 2003. The federal government

provided USD 16.4 million in fiscal year 2003 and USD 18.5 million in fiscal

year 2004. During those 2 years, states provided USD 18 million. The Bush

administration has asked for USD 23.1 million for fiscal year 2005.

 

Senators were concerned that the administration's budget proposal

would provide only USD 4.2 million for research. " It just seems to me that

USD 4.2 million is kind of meager considering the implications on wildlife, "

Sen Wayne Allard, R-Colo, said. Chronic wasting disease has been found in

wild elk and deer in Wyoming, but only on game farms in Montana.

 

While it is still unclear if chronic wasting disease can be

transmitted to humans, a jump in chronic wasting disease cases represents a

greater threat to the economies of Montana and Wyoming than to the public's

health.

 

[byline: Ted Monoson]

 

****** [2] 8 Apr 2004 ProMED-mail

<promed

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [edited]

<http://www.cdc.gov/washington/testimony/In2242004186.htm>

 

CDC's role in monitoring for transmissible spongiform

encephalopathies

 

Statement of Julie L Gerberding, MD, MPH, director, Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services,

before the Committee on Appropriations US Senate: " Although CDC's

investigations to date have not identified strong evidence for a causal link

between CWD and human illness, the conversion of human prion protein to the

disease causing form by CWD-associated prions has been demonstrated in a

cell-free experimental study performed at a National Institute of Health

laboratory. This finding and the transmission of BSE to humans indicate that

humans may not be completely protected from infection by the CWD agent.

 

-- ProMED-mail <promed

 

[it must be remembered that absence of surveillance does not mean

absence of disease. States where CWD has not already been documented have

been told that there will be little or no federal funding for CWD

surveillance in 2004. Although exercising caution with any of the TSE

diseases is appropriate, the leap from a cell-free experiment to human

disease is huge. - Mod.TG]

 

 

Patricia A. Doyle, PhD Please visit my " Emerging Diseases " message

board at:

http://www.clickitnews.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat= & Board=emergingdiseases

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Tracys

Saturday, April 10, 2004 8:48 AM

[Mr_Tracys_Corner] All you Hunters out there EAT VENISON and DIE A Horrible Death!

I've been advising my friends for years now to stop eating Venison. Itstainted from what they are doing and spraying. I havn't canned or eationVenison for over three years now. Although at one time it was a freezer andshelf winter time treat to get us through the hard winter. But this topiclike many others I report to friends and post on the net go for the mostpart ignored. Going to be a lonely planet in the near future as so many wontlisten and I guess wont be here! EVery state is reporting people gettingthis and I'll bet alot of it is hushed up to prevent and not create a pubicpanic. Because very little testing is occuring.Walt--Rense.com--CWD Mad Deer Update -Bad And Getting WorseFrom Patricia Doyle, PhDdr_p_doyle4-9-4 Many states do not have budgets to include surveillance for ChronicWasting Disease. New York is one of those States. I was unable to get anyState Wildlife assistance in regard to a deer that exhibited neurologicalsymptoms consistant with CWD. The Wildlife Pathologist would test for CWD,however, I would have to do the entire procedure of finding, killing,decapitating and sending of fthe deer head to pathology. Given the fact thatCWD is spreading from State to State so rapidly, CWD research is important. Patricia [1] 8 Apr 2004 ProMED-mail <promedSource: The Billings Gazette [edited]<http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1 & display =rednews/2004/04/07/build/state/20-chronic-wasting.inc> Wildlife disease experts seek aid; chronic wasting disease calledthreat to regional economy - Experts in chronic wasting disease told members of the US Senate onTuesday that states are digging deep into their own pockets because thefederal government is not spending enough to monitor and research theillness. They told members of a Senate Environment and Public Workssubcommittee that lawmakers don't need to create new organizations to fightthe deer and elk disease -- instead, they should get out their checkbooks."Federal and state agencies involved in this endeavor concur that,collectively, all the authorities that are necessary to manage this diseasecurrently exist in law," said Gary Taylor, who is the legislative directorfor the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. "What ismost needed are adequate congressional appropriations to the federalagencies involved both for their efforts and to pass through to the state,fish and wildlife agencies, state universities and state agriculturedepartments, to manage CWD," he said. Missoula resident and Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance projectleader Gary Wolfe told lawmakers that states are siphoning money from otherpriorities to combat chronic wasting disease, a transmissible neurologicaldisease that produces small lesions in the brains of infected animals. "TheCWD Alliance is particularly concerned that this redirection of limitedwildlife agency funds is not adequate to address the CWD issue, and willhave negative impacts on other important wildlife management andconservation programs," Wolfe said. Cases of chronic wasting disease were first identified in Wyoming inthe late 1960s, and the disease was identified as a transmissible spongiformencephalopathy (TSE) in 1978. It is similar to bovine spongiformencephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, and the sheepdisease scrapie. Although chronic wasting disease is contagious among deerand elk, there has been no evidence of transmission from deer and elk tohumans, cattle or other domestic livestock. E Tom Thorne, who is a veterinarian and wildlife disease consultantfor the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, said CWD efforts are drawingdepartment personnel away from other priorities. "It's a big area ofconcern," Thorne said. "Probably a multitude of programs are suffering. CWDmonitoring is very manpower-intensive. They had to call on game wardens andhatchery personnel and basically everyone to pitch in. If there was a wardencollecting CWD samples, he wasn't out there patrolling." Senators were told that USD 52 million has been spent for monitoringand research of chronic wasting disease since 2003. The federal governmentprovided USD 16.4 million in fiscal year 2003 and USD 18.5 million in fiscalyear 2004. During those 2 years, states provided USD 18 million. The Bushadministration has asked for USD 23.1 million for fiscal year 2005. Senators were concerned that the administration's budget proposalwould provide only USD 4.2 million for research. "It just seems to me thatUSD 4.2 million is kind of meager considering the implications on wildlife,"Sen Wayne Allard, R-Colo, said. Chronic wasting disease has been found inwild elk and deer in Wyoming, but only on game farms in Montana. While it is still unclear if chronic wasting disease can betransmitted to humans, a jump in chronic wasting disease cases represents agreater threat to the economies of Montana and Wyoming than to the public'shealth. [byline: Ted Monoson] ****** [2] 8 Apr 2004 ProMED-mail<promed Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [edited] <http://www.cdc.gov/washington/testimony/In2242004186.htm> CDC's role in monitoring for transmissible spongiformencephalopathies ---- Statement of Julie L Gerberding, MD, MPH, director, Centers forDisease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services,before the Committee on Appropriations US Senate: "Although CDC'sinvestigations to date have not identified strong evidence for a causal linkbetween CWD and human illness, the conversion of human prion protein to thedisease causing form by CWD-associated prions has been demonstrated in acell-free experimental study performed at a National Institute of Healthlaboratory. This finding and the transmission of BSE to humans indicate thathumans may not be completely protected from infection by the CWD agent. -- ProMED-mail <promed [it must be remembered that absence of surveillance does not meanabsence of disease. States where CWD has not already been documented havebeen told that there will be little or no federal funding for CWDsurveillance in 2004. Although exercising caution with any of the TSEdiseases is appropriate, the leap from a cell-free experiment to humandisease is huge. - Mod.TG] Patricia A. Doyle, PhD Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" messageboard at:http://www.clickitnews.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat= & Board=emergingdiseases Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa Go with God and in Good HealthThe homepage and the place to sign up for Tracy's Corner is: Mr_Tracys_CornerFor complaints or assistance contact xootsuit26