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What can REALLY be done about CWD?
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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5799833" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>I see many hunters believing CWD has always been around and we're just now noticing. That is not the case. Where CWD comes from is precisely known. In sheep, the disease is called Scrapie, and it has been known for a very long time. Writings by sheepherders in Scotland and England from a thousand years ago precisely describe the symptoms of the disease. So the disease has been around for a very long time, just not in deer. Scrapie jumped the species barrier from sheep to deer in a penned facility in Colorado in the 60s. The facility had been used as a research center for Scrapie. Once that research was completed, the facility was cleared of sheep. The next research group to use the penned facility was a group studying mule deer. So they filled the facility with captured wild mule deer. At the completion of their study, they released the mule deer back into the wild. However, what they didn't know was that some of the penned deer had picked up Scrapie from being held in such a small area very heavily infected with Scrapie prions. Once released into the wild, the prion disease (called CWD in cervids) spread to other wild mule deer, elk, and even white-tailed deer. The real disaster occurred when some of these infected deer were captured and used as breeding stock for commercial game farms. These animals - especially elk and white-tailed deer - were then traded, sold, and some released back into the wild all across North America.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5799833, member: 17"] I see many hunters believing CWD has always been around and we're just now noticing. That is not the case. Where CWD comes from is precisely known. In sheep, the disease is called Scrapie, and it has been known for a very long time. Writings by sheepherders in Scotland and England from a thousand years ago precisely describe the symptoms of the disease. So the disease has been around for a very long time, just not in deer. Scrapie jumped the species barrier from sheep to deer in a penned facility in Colorado in the 60s. The facility had been used as a research center for Scrapie. Once that research was completed, the facility was cleared of sheep. The next research group to use the penned facility was a group studying mule deer. So they filled the facility with captured wild mule deer. At the completion of their study, they released the mule deer back into the wild. However, what they didn't know was that some of the penned deer had picked up Scrapie from being held in such a small area very heavily infected with Scrapie prions. Once released into the wild, the prion disease (called CWD in cervids) spread to other wild mule deer, elk, and even white-tailed deer. The real disaster occurred when some of these infected deer were captured and used as breeding stock for commercial game farms. These animals - especially elk and white-tailed deer - were then traded, sold, and some released back into the wild all across North America. [/QUOTE]
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