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Battling Chronic Wasting Disease Effectively

By Charly Seale on June 22, 2015

A recent Food Safety News piece examining chronic wasting disease (CWD) brought up the question about how to manage the disease. As noted, CWD has never infected humans. The difficulty with CWD, however, is the…
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‘Surprising’ Discovery Made About Chronic Wasting Disease

By Cookson Beecher on June 1, 2015

An infectious brain disease that has been killing deer, elk and moose both in the wild and on “captive farms” continues to stalk the land, expanding its domain to 23 states and two Canadian provinces …

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Search Underway for Any More ‘Mad Cows’

By Dan Flynn on April 26, 2012

The dead Hanford, CA dairy cow with laboratory-confirmed bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is now the centerpiece of an investigation into whether there are any more mad cows in the vicinity.

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New Test for Variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease

By News Desk on May 16, 2011

A news release from the National Institutes of Health Tuesday reports that scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have developed a new way to detect variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD) in…

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Study Answers How CWD Spreads in Herds

By Dan Flynn on November 9, 2009

Researchers discovered chronic wasting disease in Colorado and 42 years later the Centennial State remains at the center of studies into the fatal neurological disease found in deer, elk and moose.

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Attention Hunters: Check CWD Regulations

By Dan Flynn on November 8, 2009

Early snow in the West’s high country sent deer, elk and moose down to lower elevations where hunters are waiting this hunting season. Hunters see themselves as rugged individualists out to shoot a trophy animal,…
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