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
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
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
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.
For example, a team
Attention Hunters: Check CWD Regulations
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
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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