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CWD Positive Deer Discovered in Florida Panhandle
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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5650092" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>It's going to be a very, very slow process. With most diseases, individuals without any natural or developed immunity die off pretty quickly, leaving only those with natural/developed immunity to reproduce and pass that immunity on to their offspring, producing an entire population immune to the disease. And the faster the disease kills after infection, the faster this process of eliminating those not immune occurs. However, with CWD, deer live a very long time once infected. They continue to reproduce during that time, producing more non-immune offspring. That means producing an entire population that is immune will take many, many, many generations.</p><p></p><p>And as for population, considering some infected deer live almost an entire normal lifetime before dying from the disease, I would not expect deer populations to decline much. That is, unless game agencies take to foolish step of try to "slow the disease spread" by wiping out the local deer population.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5650092, member: 17"] It's going to be a very, very slow process. With most diseases, individuals without any natural or developed immunity die off pretty quickly, leaving only those with natural/developed immunity to reproduce and pass that immunity on to their offspring, producing an entire population immune to the disease. And the faster the disease kills after infection, the faster this process of eliminating those not immune occurs. However, with CWD, deer live a very long time once infected. They continue to reproduce during that time, producing more non-immune offspring. That means producing an entire population that is immune will take many, many, many generations. And as for population, considering some infected deer live almost an entire normal lifetime before dying from the disease, I would not expect deer populations to decline much. That is, unless game agencies take to foolish step of try to "slow the disease spread" by wiping out the local deer population. [/QUOTE]
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