CWD Statistics

[Squirrelhunter91]

I found this in the March/April Edition of Bowhunter Magazine and figured I should post it.

CWD IN THE WILD

1st set of numbers indicates when CWD was first found in the wild

2nd set of numbers indicates Number of animals with CWD found in wild

3rd set of numbers is the number of animals sampled to date.

Alberta- 2005- 1 Mule Deer- Not Reported

Colorado- 1981- in 2004 ~ 147 Mule Deer, 4 White tailed Deer, 24 Elk, in 2005 ~ 1 Moose - 5,444 Mule Deer, 702 White Tailed Deer, 7,219 Elk, 101 Moose

Illinois- 2002 - 96 White Tailed Deer - 16,500 White Tailed Deer

Nebraska - 2000 - 53 Mule Deer, 28 White Tailed Deer - 17,460 overall

New Mexico - 2002 - 9 White Tailed Deer - 1,315 White Tailed Deer

New York - 2005 - 2 White Tailed Deer - 3,500

South Dakota - 2001 - 24 White Tailed Deer, 9 Elk - 9,052 Deer & Elk combined

Utah - 2002 - 18 White Tailed Deer - 6,027 White Tailed Deer

Wisconsin - 2002 - 470 White Tailed Deer - 75,000 White Tailed Deer

Wyoming - 1997 - 459 Deer & Elk combined - not listed

Saskatchewan - 2000 - 62 Mule Deer, 4 White Tailed Deer - 22,666 Mule Deer & White Tailed Deer combined

West Virginia - 2005 - 1 White Tailed Deer - 1,032 White Tailed Deer

I hope that that was not too confusing..because here is another one similiar to it...

CWD ON GAME FARMS

1st Column indicates state where CWD was found on Game Farms

2nd Column indicates number of farms where CWD was found

Colorado - 14

Kansas - 1

Minnesota - 2

Montana - 1

Nebraska - 4

New York - 2

Oklahoma - 1

South Dakota - 7

Wisconsin - 7

So according to this article, CWD was found in 2 provinces & 10 states in the wild. Then on game farms it was found on 42 different game farms in 9 different states. I hope we can find a cure to this disease fast and administer it to the wildlife before this gets out of hand.

[arrow32]

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Thanks for sharing.

You have already gotten your march/april edition. Im going to have to check.

[Doc]

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I think that currently they are spending more resources on counting instances, tracking its progress and learning more about how it is spread than they are looking for a cure. First things first.

Actually, I wouldn't really expect a cure. I'm not sure I have ever heard of a disease in wild animals that was ever eradicated or even seriously effected by some man-made cure. Plus I think that the number of people across the continent that are really all that concerned do not represent a big enough base of support to fully fund any kind of emergency all-out effort on the research required to find and administer a cure. Let's face it, in terms of priority, CWD sits pretty low on the list in the minds of most average citizens. Not only that, but there are some interests who are actually applauding anything that would lower the deer numbers.

Doc

[doughboy1956]

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Thanks for the article.

[wtnhunt]

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Pretty interesting statistics.

[Texan_Til_I_Die]

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I'm not sure I have ever heard of a disease in wild animals that was ever eradicated or even seriously effected by some man-made cure.

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The screw worm eradication program that the federal government sponsered in the 1950's directly resulted in the Texas deer herd increasing from about 300,000 animals to over 3 million in just a few years. Today, screw worms are virtually non-existent in the deer population.

Eliminating CWD shouldn't be that difficult IF they can find a cure/preventative. Right now, there's no known cure.

[Doc]

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So, how did they administer the cure for screw worm to every deer in the state? I'm not saying that it's impossible, but I sure would be interested in finding out how they got all those deer to line up for their innoculations. It sounds like a project on the par with the anti-hunters idea of applying contraception to control deer populations.

Just curious. How did they do that?

Doc