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Game food safety tips for hunters

By News Desk on October 4, 2021

It’s hunting season, and just like hunters need to be well trained in gun safety to avoid accidents, hunters also need to be well trained in food safety to avoid foodborne illnesses. 

Those who field …
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Scotland assesses STEC risk from wild venison after outbreak

By Joe Whitworth on November 6, 2020

Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157 is not common in wild Scottish deer but when it is found there are usually high levels that can cause more severe illness, according to a report.

Experts said there…
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Hunting season safety practices aren’t all about guns and arrows

By News Desk on October 9, 2019

With deer hunting season upon us there is an increase in the potential for foodborne illnesses. Field dressing, butchering, and handling of game meat all offer opportunity for pathogens wreak havoc.

Even if proper technique…
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Researchers analyze human diseases from bushmeat; cultural practices in play

By News Desk on May 16, 2019

Researchers have taken a step toward estimating the risk of disease transmission from wild meat consumption.

The team, including members of the Wildlife Conservation Society, have presented a framework to quantify the risk of zoonotic…
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Deer Confirmed as Source of Strawberry Outbreak

By Mary Rothschild on August 18, 2011

Lab tests confirmed that deer feces found in strawberry fields in Oregon were the source of E. coli 0157:H7 infections that killed one person and sickened at least 14 others, Oregon Public Health Division officials…
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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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Food Safety Tips For Hunters

By Suzanne Schreck on October 28, 2009

Hunting season is well underway.  Countless hopeful men, women, and children dressed in camouflage and bright orange have ventured into the wilderness in search of wild game.

Like livestock, deer, elk, wild pigs, and other…
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