Chronic Wasting Disease in Texas Deer

[alsaqr]

There is an epidemic of chronic wasting disease in Texas farm raised deer. i can't understand why Texas authorities allowed deer from farms known to harbor CWD to be transferred to other farms.

"Texas is seeing an “unprecedented” increase in Chronic Wasting Disease cases in deer breeding facilities. This uptick has led to a new emergency order expanding mandatory live CWD testing statewide, TPWD reports. Since 2012, TPWD has recorded 504 confirmed cases of CWD in whitetails and mule deer, both free-range and captive. Sixty percent of the 504 positive tests—300 cases—have occurred since 2021, and breeder deer comprised 258 of them. In other words, 51 percent of all positive CWD tests recorded in Texas have come from breeder deer in the last two and a half years."

MSN

 

[Patocazador]

Florida announced its first case of CWD a couple of weeks ago. It was a road kill near the Alabama border.
I'm sure there are others in that area.

I always butcher deer by removing the loins and tenderloins instead of sawing it into chops which exposes the spinal cord. I do the same with ducks and doves with a pair of shears and removing the spinal column..
I have been lax about using gloves when butchering ... but no more!

CWD and bird flu are VERY dangerous and all precautions must be taken.

 

[CapnMac]

Well, the "science" behind CWD is hardly even begun, let alone settled. Which means that regulatory groups, like TPW literally have nothing to go on for creating policy (and that before the ponderous inertia of government programs compounds that problem).

There's no conclusive evidence that CWD is "transmitted" via breeding--neither for nor against. What causes prion uptake to manifest as CWD is not yet known. There's some correlation about common grazing grounds--but, it's not even to a reliable level of correlation.

There's also a problem of data density. Texas mandates a ton of testing & examination of venison breeding populations. Far, far in excess of anything possible in wild populations. If you have a dataset with 10,000 points of information on Group A of a thing, and only 500 of Group B of a thing, it's really hard to project data out of A into B. Now, if you are collecting data at that ratio, 10k:500 per year, for, say, 10 years, then there's more likely to be comparable parity between the datasets.

Maybe.
Perhaps.

 

[Bronco72]

Trusting the Gubermint as I do I say IT"S A TRAP. To eliminate the hunter in this country

 

[buck460XVR]

Well, the "science" behind CWD is hardly even begun, let alone settled. Which means that regulatory groups, like TPW literally have nothing to go on for creating policy (and that before the ponderous inertia of government programs compounds that problem).

CWD has been around for over 40 years....there is plenty of data out there for creating policy. Wisconsin has been on the forefront since the early 2000s and their data and policies are what most states with new infestations follow. It is not the lack of data that is preventing Texas from instituting policy only reluctance to admit they have a problem......or that CWD is a problem at all. CWD has become world wide and not only infects whitetail deer but reindeer, moose and other members of the deer family.

There's no conclusive evidence that CWD is "transmitted" via breeding--neither for nor against. What causes prion uptake to manifest as CWD is not yet known. There's some correlation about common grazing grounds--but, it's not even to a reliable level of correlation.

Scientists believe CWD proteins (prions) likely spread between animals through body fluids like feces, saliva, blood, or urine, either through direct contact or indirectly through environmental contamination of soil, food or water.

Trusting the Gubermint as I do I say IT"S A TRAP. To eliminate the hunter in this country

No Government in states like Texas, where hunting is big business, is going to eliminate hunting or hunters. Unlike the rumors, states are not introducing CWD into deer herds to eliminate deer or deer hunting. If anything, it's hunters themselves that are driving the spread of CWD. Their quest for big racked deer has driven the deer farm industry. Their quest for seeing many deer during deer season has driven numbers of deer to un-natural levels. We want to supplemetal feed and water them in small congested areas so that we have a close and easy shot during deer hunting. The quest for unnaturally occurring multiple large racked bucks have let so there are more mature deer in the herd than ever. Altho maternal transmission of the prion does occur, for the most part, CWD is a disease of mature deer.

CWD is here to stay and will only expand it's range. To think that it is not a issue is just sticking your head in the sand.

 

[crestoncowboy]

We have had it in small numbers in the TN/NC mountain region for at least 10 years.

 

[crestoncowboy]

food

Everyone's corn pile. It's legal here btw.

If anything, it's hunters themselves that are driving the spread of CWD. Their quest for big racked deer has driven the deer farm industry. Their quest for seeing many deer during deer season has driven numbers of deer to un-natural levels.

This. We have said it was coming for 20 years around here. People beg to hunt our land and I always tell them shoot 2 does for every one buck.

Don't recall ever seeing a single person come out with a doe. Lol

 

[Ranger99]

. . .I have been lax about using gloves when butchering ... but no more! . . .

I was lax myself until I caught some
kind of something from skinning several
deer on a cull hunt ( back when there
was such a thing) and I got some sort
of disease in the little nicks one
gets in the fingers from dressing
animals that sometimes have bone
splinters from shooting them.
I don't remember exactly what it was,
but my fingers and hands swelled up
horribly, and I had to get an antibiotic
shot and take pills for a couple of
weeks

 

[mountain_man]

We have had it in small numbers in the TN/NC mountain region for at least 10 years.

I thought last year was the first confirmed case of cwd in NC. And none of the cases found were in the mountains. I try to follow the cwd in NC since I hunt some in the NC mountains

 

[crestoncowboy]

I thought last year was the first confirmed case of cwd in NC. And none of the cases found were in the mountains. I try to follow the cwd in NC since I hunt some in the NC mountains

At least 10 years ago they sent out pamphlets saying it was confirmed in wilkes County...maybe they changed the confirmation. And Johnson County TN as well as VA both bordering nc had cases back in 08-09. My land borders TN and VA in different spots so I just figure we have it.

Maybe wrong diagnosis or difference of tests idk. Im in Ashe/Wilkes/Watauga counties. Amd Johnson in TN and Grayson VA