CWD?

[NY Bowhunter]

What ever happened to all the hoopla about CWD in NY? I havent' heard any reports about anything since last year. I was about to pack my bags and move last year when I first heard about it[8D][:-] Was it blown out of proportion or another DEC conspiracy like the mountain lions? What's the deal?

[Mountaineer93]

CWD info flows in waves. It takes a long time to get the tests done and review the results. If NY has tested a large number of animals this past season it may besummer before they have their results.

CWD in NY and WV, unfortunately is here to stay. It is not the end all that everyone thinks it is. The west has had it for decades and they have adjusted. The biggest change we will need to do is to bone out all of the venision. Use a different knife to cut around the spine, lymph nodes, brain, etc & another for cutting the steaks.

Check your DNR website often as they will have any updates.

[Bill Yox]

NY state vets have testedsome 5000 wilddeer as well as depopulated a couple possible suspect herdssince the "outbreak" last year, and all tests came back NEGATIVE. All of us deerfarmers who have submitted a few hundred samples from our captive herds this past year were also all NEGATIVE. All the negative press as well as thefinger pointers (who hated me for calling them what they were) are now convinced it was a hunter killed deer remains that came in contact with live deer. Thinking outside the box (and fence) think of how many ways that contact could be made. Now you see why I loose my mind when uninformed folks (posing as informed ones) claim CWD came into the state on the back of a deerfarmers truck.

[livbucks]

The biggest change we will need to do is to bone out all of the venision.

Can I ask the purpose of this? CWD is notinfectous to humans.
Cooking kills it anyway, same as Trichina in pork. How many Trichinosis cases do you hear about? I don't get what this will accomplish.
Enlighten me.

[Champlain Islander]

ORIGINAL: livbucks

Can I ask the purpose of this? CWD is notinfectous to humans.
Cooking kills it anyway, same as Trichina in pork. How many Trichinosis cases do you hear about? I don't get what this will accomplish.
Enlighten me.

I think CWD in cows has killed a couple of hundred people in the UK. I don't think they know the answer on the possibility of catching it after deer meat consumption. One of the NY deer was fed to 300 people at a venison banquet before they knew it had CWD.

[livbucks]

ORIGINAL: Champlain Islander

I think CWD in cows has killed a couple of hundred people in the UK. I don't think they know the answer on the possibility of catching it after deer meat consumption. One of the NY deer was fed to 300 people at a venison banquet before they knew it had CWD.

I think mad cow disease and CWD are two different maladies.
Pretty sure.
If they were the same, we would surely be facing a catastrophe right now with cattle sharing the same lands as deer.

[Mountaineer93]

CWD and Mad Cow are different diseases. However, they are forms of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. Both are caused from a mutated protein called a prion.

The best site to get all of the correct info is http://www.cwd-info.org

I agree with Bill that CWD most likely was from wild animals coming in contact with the remains of an infected animal. Wild deer will eat animal bones for the calcium. If the remains from a hunter killed animal was positive it can be transmitted to the live animal even if the remains have been there for years.

Several states that now have CWD have shown that the source of CWD in their state has not been the result of the Captive Cervid Industry. Now that CWD is a concern, most states and the operators of deer farms have done a great job in monitoring this disease. Unfortunately, sources of transmission out side of the industry are not monitored as well as they could be and this is where problems are occurring.

If hunters see an animal which show the clinical signs of CWD, they should contact their state's game agency. We, as hunters, owe it to the resource to be a part of the monitoring process.