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Multiple samples collected from dead deer in the Panhandle have tested positive for epizootic hemorrhagic disease.
The diseased deer were recently discovered in big game units 2 and 5 in the Plummer, Coeur d’Alene and Rathdrum areas. Fish and Game has also received reports of dead deer in locations ranging from the Bonners Ferry area down to Plummer.
It is difficult to estimate how many deer are being affected, but the number of reports received is currently less than 30. Fish and Game staff will continue to monitor the situation in the weeks ahead, but it is expected that deaths will continue until temperatures drop below freezing to kill the biting gnats that transmit the disease.
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease that affects deer, elk, reindeer, sika deer and moose. It has been found in some areas of North America, including Canada and the United States, Norway and South Korea. It may take over a year before an infected animal develops symptoms, which can include drastic weight loss (wasting), stumbling, listlessness and other neurologic symptoms. CWD can affect animals of all ages and some infected animals may die without ever developing the disease. CWD is fatal to animals and there are no treatments or vaccines.
originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: jerryznv
What does it do to humans who eat them?
Anything similar to mad-cow?
Our veterinary staff never recommends eating an animal with a fever and a widespread systemic infection. Deer that survive an EHD infection are safe to eat. These animals may exhibit a dark, gritty liver. Our veterinary staff always recommends thoroughly cooking all game meat.
There has never been a recorded case of cervid-human transmission, but the Center for Disease Control advises against eating meat from infected animals. And the World Health Organization has recommended since at least 1997 that known agents of prion diseases be kept out of the food chain. The bottom line is that, because they are not alive, CWD prions cannot be killed—they remain present in soils and the environment for years after an outbreak. You certainly cannot “cook them out” of your venison.
originally posted by: madmac5150
I live in the panhandle, in the mountains north of CdA. There have been sporadic reports of both diseases in the deer population, over the past several years... but it isn't nearly as dire as the OP suggests.
We live in deer central. We have yet to see signs in our local whitetails or mule deer... not saying it isn't happening, but it is far from epidemic.
Those biting gnats cited in the story? Those little bastages all froze to death a month ago.
It is difficult to estimate how many deer are being affected, but the number of reports received is currently less than 30.
but it is expected that deaths will continue until temperatures drop below freezing to kill the biting gnats that transmit the disease.
originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: jerryznv
What does it do to humans who eat them?
Anything similar to mad-cow?
originally posted by: LetsGoViking
a reply to: jerryznv
Just a note that this is from Friday, September 10, 2021 - 6:18 PM MDT.
None of the hunters I know here in NW Montana have noticed anything like this over the past season. But it's good to know!
Chronic wasting disease was detected for the first time ever in Idaho in deer and elk in Unit 14, and Fish and Game staff developed a plan to keep the percentage of animals infected with the CWD low (less than 5 percent), and slow the geographic spread of it. Fish ad Game Director Ed Schriever described changes as a “measured response” to managing CWD.
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CWD) are both prion diseases and CWD may/likely has the potential to infect humans.
originally posted by: LetsGoViking
a reply to: jerryznv
Yeah, CWD is a huge issue still here in the Flathead Valley and Mission mountains. That's why I haven't bothered to go hunting for the past few years.
But thanks again for the heads up,and I'll post back if I hear anything new from our neck of the woods!
Cheers!
PENDLETON, Ore. – Tests conducted by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife veterinarians confirmed that Epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) is responsible for the die-off of an estimated 2,000 white-tailed deer in eastern Oregon.
November 16, 2022
SALEM, Ore.— ODFW will host a check station to sample elk for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) during Western Coast elk second season on Saturday, Nov. 19 from 8 a.m. to dusk in Blodgett. The location is a large gravel parking lot at the junction of State Highway 20 and County Road 180 (44.59741, -123.51990), on the north side of the highway.
ODFW has sampled more than 24,000 deer and elk for CWD over the past 20 years as the disease began to spread from Colorado and Wyoming to other states due to animal migrations and movements of live animals and carcasses by people. Oregon's surveillance effort has not detected CWD in free-ranging deer, elk or moose within our borders. Unfortunately, it was found in mule deer, Rocky Mountain elk and white-tailed deer in NW Idaho, just 30 miles from the Oregon border, late last year.
originally posted by: jerryznv
a reply to: nugget1
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CWD) are both prion diseases and CWD may/likely has the potential to infect humans.
A bit scary...there seems to be no definitive evidence (yet) that humans can contract this from wildlife. Heavy emphasis on the yet!
The more I read and understand about it...the less I actually really understand! It seems to be somewhat of a mystery and it's still not fully understood I gather!
mad cow emerged in the UK in the mid-1980s after cattle ate bone meal of sheep infected with scrapie, a similar brain-wasting disease. The disease then made the jump to people through infected beef products, causing a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Such a change has yet to happen with CWD. So far, its path of destruction appears to have stopped at the human body.
Canadian researchers found that macaque monkeys contracted CWD after eating infected deer. The results mark the first time the disease has been shown to spread to a primate through meat, rather than through a direct injection of CWD prions into the nervous system.
“While most research shows there’s a robust species barrier, this recent study showed that barrier might not be quite as robust as we once thought,” Dunfee said.
Research by Mark Zabel, the associate director of the Prion Research Center at Colorado State University, has found the agents behind the “zombie disease” are highly susceptible to change and are likely still evolving.
originally posted by: nugget1
originally posted by: jerryznv
a reply to: nugget1
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CWD) are both prion diseases and CWD may/likely has the potential to infect humans.
A bit scary...there seems to be no definitive evidence (yet) that humans can contract this from wildlife. Heavy emphasis on the yet!
The more I read and understand about it...the less I actually really understand! It seems to be somewhat of a mystery and it's still not fully understood I gather!
mad cow emerged in the UK in the mid-1980s after cattle ate bone meal of sheep infected with scrapie, a similar brain-wasting disease. The disease then made the jump to people through infected beef products, causing a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Such a change has yet to happen with CWD. So far, its path of destruction appears to have stopped at the human body.
Canadian researchers found that macaque monkeys contracted CWD after eating infected deer. The results mark the first time the disease has been shown to spread to a primate through meat, rather than through a direct injection of CWD prions into the nervous system.
“While most research shows there’s a robust species barrier, this recent study showed that barrier might not be quite as robust as we once thought,” Dunfee said.
Research by Mark Zabel, the associate director of the Prion Research Center at Colorado State University, has found the agents behind the “zombie disease” are highly susceptible to change and are likely still evolving.
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It's just a matter of time.
Nationwide, there has been an 85 percent increase in CJD cases from 2002 to 2015 – something national health officials chalk up to better monitoring efforts and an aging population.
“While most research shows there’s a robust species barrier, this recent study showed that barrier might not be quite as robust as we once thought,”
originally posted by: v1rtu0s0
Another gain of function "leak"?
Klaus Schwab wet dream.