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10-25-2002 | 08:04 AM

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TJD

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From: Sussex WI

RE: CWD total to 40 deer, 2.57% Infection rate.

Muckster,

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quotequote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>People should alway's state there opinion. Why should I keep it to myself? Just cause someone doesn't like to here it.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote> You are right. That's what bulletin boards are all about. But hopefully, that opinion is an informed one, not some hysterical nonsense. On that point...<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>When other deer come to eat the bones from the dead deer guess what, you now have 50% to 75% CWD in the herd.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote> Hmmmm? where'd you get that bit of silliness from? Highest rate of occurence I was able to find out about among whitetail deer was 18%...and that was among deer on a deer farm out West. And with regard to 150 deer per square mile?!...WHERE did you get that from??

Again, let's go back:

"Although CWD was first documented in free-ranging deer and elk in southeast Wyoming and northeast Colorado in the 1980s, it is likely the disease has been present at least 30 to 50 years."

And now deer are extinct in Wyoming and Colorado, aren't they? Oh that's right, there are now MORE deer out there!

...and...

“In the affected area of Wyoming and Colorado tests show only 4 to 5 percent of deer have the disease and the rate is much lower for elk.”

And here in Wisconsin, the rate is less than 3%, despite all of the hysterical claims by the DNR that our higher deer densities would mean much higher incidence rates.

...you were saying something about having blinders on??...

Edited by - TJD on 10/25/2002 09:08:26

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