What causes CWD?
Chronic Wasting Disease FAQs - Department of Agriculture, Tr...Like other TSEs, chronic wasting disease is apparently caused by an abnormal prion, a type of protein, that replicates itself in the animal’s brain and spinal cord. It causes sponge-like lesions in the animal’s brain.
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Chronic Wasting Disease FAQs - Department of Agriculture, Tr...CWD was first seen in Colorado deer belonging to several research facilities in 1967. Since then, it has been found in wild deer and elk herds in the area where Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado meet. It has been found in captive elk herds in Colorado, Nebraska, Montana, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Saskatchewan, Canada. In June 2002, it was discovered in a free-ranging mule deer in New Mexico.
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Chronic Wasting Disease FAQs - Department of Agriculture, Tr...Scientists are not certain, but believe CWD passes from animal to animal in close contact, and perhaps from mother to offspring. CWD has not been associated with any particular feeding practice, as BSE has.
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Chronic Wasting Disease FAQs - Department of Agriculture, Tr...The disease progresses slowly, so animals may be infected and not show any signs for several years. Symptoms include lack of coordination, separation from other animals in the herd, excessive salivation, depression, unusual behavior, paralysis, weight loss, difficulty swallowing, increased thirst and urination, and pneumonia. Signs usually last weeks to months before the animal dies. Most animals are 15 to 35 months old when signs appear, but they may be as old as 13 years.
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Chronic Wasting Disease FAQs - Department of Agriculture, Tr...The only sure way to diagnose CWD is to examine the animal’s brain for the characteristic lesions that make the brain look like a sponge. There is no approved test for live animals, although one is in development.
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Chronic Wasting Disease FAQs - Department of Agriculture, Tr...According to the World Health Organization, there is no scientific evidence that CWD affects humans. It has not been associated with eating infected animals. In 16 years of surveillance in infected areas of the western United States, there has been no evidence of the disease affecting any species other than deer and elk.
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Chronic Wasting Disease FAQs - Department of Agriculture, Tr...The greatest threat in Wisconsin is probably to Wisconsin’s wild whitetail deer population, because testing and tracing are difficult in wild animals. Wisconsin also has 575 farms with captive whitetail deer, and 272 with captive elk. We have about 100 farms raising red deer, reindeer, fallow deer and sika deer. We don’t know if these species are susceptible to CWD.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Chronic Wasting DiseaseAccording to experts and public health officials, there's no evidence that CWD can be naturally transmitted to humans, or to animals other than deer and elk. As a general precaution, however, it's a good idea for people to avoid contact with any wild animal that appears sick.
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CWD (Chronic Wasting Disease)In other states with captive animals known to have or have been exposed to CWD, management is concentrating on quarantining or depopulating captive or free-ranging animals in the affected area. In some cases around captive populations, double fencing is recommended to prevent direct contact between captive and wild animals.
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Chronic Wasting Disease - Frequently Asked QuestionsChronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a disease of the central nervous system that occurs in deer and elk. It belongs to the family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or prion diseases. Though it shares certain features with other TSEs, like mad cow disease or scrapie in sheep, it is a distinct disease apparently affecting only deer and related species. CWD occurs in wild deer and elk primarily in northeastern Colorado, and adjacent parts of Wyoming and Nebraska.
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Chronic Wasting Disease - Frequently Asked QuestionsCWD attacks the brains of infected deer and elk, causing the animals to become emaciated, display abnormal behavior, lose bodily functions, and die. Signs identified in captive deer include excessive salivation, loss of appetite, progressive weight loss, excessive thirst and urination, listlessness, teeth grinding, holding the head in a lowered position, and drooping ears.
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What are we doing to prevent the spread of CWD in Wisconsin?
Chronic Wasting Disease FAQs - Department of Agriculture, Tr...We have a monitoring program for deer and elk farms. Farmers who want to move live deer or elk from their farms must be enrolled in the program, which also includes mandatory testing for all animals that die or are killed on surveillance farms, as well as for some animals from other farms. We have also set import controls that are so strict that they have the effect of a temporary moratorium on imports.
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Related QuestionsHow does CWD spread?
CWD (Chronic Wasting Disease)Although the exact mechanism is not known, CWD is believed to be spread by the agent responsible both by direct animal-to-animal contact and indirectly via the soil or other contact surfaces. It is thought that the most common mode of transmission from an infected animal is via saliva, feces, and urine.
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