Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm well aware of CWD Greg, and the changes in the last 4 years - the disease is quite slow moving for a disease of a mobile wild host; in the 20 years or so since it was identified it hasn't spread very far at all. This map: http://www.cwd-info.org/index.php/fuseaction/about.map is up to date at 3/10 and is based on a wide range of surveys tools, not just from hunted deer. Also note that the prion that causes CWD is unrelated to those that cause disease in humans or other animals, making it unlikely that it was originally derived from consumption of human foods. http://wildlife.state.co.us/NR/rdonlyres/BF3BE1C5-5835-47E3-8737-5AA566AA5245/0/EID_CDWPotTrans.pdf This review, although from 2002, is very interesting: http://www.oie.int/boutique/index.php?page=ficprod&id_prec=81&id_produit=619&lang=en&fichrech=1 Marty On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Greg Lorenzo <gregj_lorenzo at hotmail.com> wrote: > > benedenia at gmail.com writes: > >> >> They're definitely scars. There is a map here: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chronic_wasting_disease_aug_2006.jpg >> that shows the distribution of chronic wasting disease. Outside that >> area it's most likely that it's just been a hard winter. It happens >> here in summer with kangaroos. >> >> Marty > > Possibly a bad winter, possibly CWD. Only way to test for this is to > examine the deer's brain tissue under a microscope. Something only done on > an very small percentage of wild deer - some road kill some harvested. > Most deer taken by hunters are large males in their prime. Your map is > four years out of date for a very fast moving disease thought to be a > result of the consumption of contaminated man made feed. > > Greg Lorenzo > Calgary, Canada > _________________________________________________________________ > Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390709/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >