Tennessee Preliminarily Detects Chronic Wasting Disease; Enacts CWD Response Plan

[dtala]

Deer farmers/breeders/hunting enclosures didn't have squat to do with the start of CWD. Colorado Wildlife did that all on their own in the early/mid 60s at Ft Collins in the Foothills Wildlife Research Station by putting healthy mule deer in pens that had previously held Scrappie infected sheep. Scrappie is the sheep equivalent of CWD, same disease in another animal. Same as Mad Cow in cattle.

Co shipped infected deer all over the west and into Canada. In 1990 one could backtrace every single instance of CWD in the US to Ft Collins. DNA studies have shown the same thing. It hasn't been around "forever" unless you only count back to 1965.

 

[buckpasser]

Where do you gets your "facts" from? I would be interested in reading about them.

Which ones?

 

[cneedha1]

I've heard this on here for years. Every year in fact. Now some of you are gonna point to corn as the means in which Georgia FINALLY LEARNS ITS LESSON lol. Sounds a little bit Obamaish to me...

Did someone seriously blame CWD on Obama?? ????

 

[turkeykirk]

Did someone seriously blame CWD on Obama?? ????

Think it’s the other way around. CWD caused Obama.

 

[Big7]

It will inevitably show up in N. Ga. soon
if it's already in a border state.

AND.... With all the "supplemental"
feeding AKA, "korn piles" it will run
rampant throughout Georgia pretty quick.

When it gets to a certain point, there's
no way to stop it.

 

[Throwback]

It will inevitably show up in N. Ga. soon
if it's already in a border state.

AND.... With all the "supplemental"
feeding AKA, "korn piles" it will run
rampant throughout Georgia pretty quick.

When it gets to a certain point, there's
no way to stop it.

see the link I posted on page 1 from wisconsin. It hasn't "ran rampant" there in almost 20 years. there are multiple counties there with no CWD cases and some with very few.

 

[175rltw]

Some counties in Wisconsin have no whitetail harvest or very little.


The mountains probably won’t have a huge issue simply due to the real low density of the deer population.

Harder hit will be the piedmont where there is a solid and well connected population over a larger geographic expanse.

But even then. I’v hunted since the mid nineties in CWD areas and seen animals I’ve known were sick, and left them alone- only harvested animals that seemed healthy leave spinal cord in the field keep head separate from meat etc etc etc eaten the meat fed it to my family etc. I don’t know if I’d feed the meat to my family if the animal did test positive now that tests are readily available innsome areas and mandatory in others. I shot a doe wendsday and gutless quartered her and packed her takes longer but it’s cleaner anyway. I’m ready to deal with it being here, it won’t change my game. I just wonder how the state will handle it and still keep

#everythingthesameforallgeorgians

When it’s going to be yet another SERIOUS managment factor to consider. In some areas moreso than others. Who knows.

It might be time for more high fence operations to keep the sick animals out!

The good news is that probably be able to bring back heads from Colorado again it won’t matter anymore.

 

[bonecollector123]

I wonder why Dr deer and Ted Nugent just testified in Mich or Wisconsin saying there is no proof that CWD is spreading. I just watched a video of Ted on Joe Rogin's you tube channel talking about this. He also said CWD was invented by the government in 1967.

 

[bonecollector123]

According to uncle Ted 58 deer were killed by what they are calling Cwd he says more deer were killed by buicks

 

[C.Killmaster]

I wonder why Dr deer and Ted Nugent just testified in Mich or Wisconsin saying there is no proof that CWD is spreading. I just watched a video of Ted on Joe Rogin's you tube channel talking about this. He also said CWD was invented by the government in 1967.

Because they both make money in the deer breeding industry.

 

[C.Killmaster]

These were just across the state line from a recent positive found in Mississippi.

 

[buckpasser]

Dr Deer is a joke.

 

[sb1010]

According to this the infected Tennessee deer were in Fayette, and Hardeman counties. These counties are in West TN and border Mississippi.


https://www.wkrn.com/top-news/tenne...-wasting-disease-in-tennessee-deer/1661471123

However so many states have it I can't see how it won't come here.

 

[strothershwacker]

Dr. Deer, Ted Nugent and anyone else that thinks a disease affecting our wildlife isn't anything to worry about should be dismissed as credible sources of information. As hunters we should all be willing to do our part to keep it out of Georgia. There are real biologist studying how this is spreading and we should listen to them. Even if we find it cramps our style a little. If they say don't bring in out of state harvest, if they say don't use feeders, deer pee or anything else for that matter, it's a small inconvenience compared to threatening our deer herd. The "it can't happen here" mentality is the wrong approach. Treat it like the plague!

 

[lampern]

Matt Knox, who is from Georgia orginally and is the longtime deer biologist for the state of Virginia, thinks CWD is a big deal.

 

[C.Killmaster]

Matt Knox, who is from Georgia orginally and is the longtime deer biologist for the state of Virginia, thinks CWD is a big deal.

I know Matt Knox well, he's one of the single largest sources of institutional knowledge on southeastern deer management.

 

[howboutthemdawgs]

Listen to any podcast with our own Lindsay Thomas in it. You will quickly believe it’s a big deal. And you will quickly (well maybe not everyone) realize baiting was a horrible decision based on emotion rather than science.

 

[spurrs and racks]

i also think CWD is a big deal. Here is the problem with it for me.

CWD has been around longer than my lifetime, and it has yet to be proven to me that CWD has not always been around. For all the folks that think the deer industry is at fault I also think the states are riding the CWD scare to gain federal money's.

No problem except that no person or persons have come up with a cure for it yet.

 

[buckpasser]

i also think CWD is a big deal. Here is the problem with it for me.

CWD has been around longer than my lifetime, and it has yet to be proven to me that CWD has not always been around. For all the folks that think the deer industry is at fault I also think the states are riding the CWD scare to gain federal money's.

No problem except that no person or persons have come up with a cure for it yet.

Where do you think it’s always been around at?

 

[C.Killmaster]

i also think CWD is a big deal. Here is the problem with it for me.

CWD has been around longer than my lifetime, and it has yet to be proven to me that CWD has not always been around. For all the folks that think the deer industry is at fault I also think the states are riding the CWD scare to gain federal money's.

No problem except that no person or persons have come up with a cure for it yet.

Read what Dtala said in post #21, that's it in a nutshell. Feel free to fact check him and I think you'll arrive at the same conclusion. The continued spread is now the result of people moving live deer all over the country. Also, USDA funding for CWD testing ended in 2011. No one has come up with a cure for any prion disease, human or animal.