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	CDC - Chronic Wasting Disease and Potential Transmission to Humans
		CWD was first identified as a fatal wasting syndrome of captive mule deer in the late 1960s in research facilities in Colorado and was recognized as a TSE in 1978 (6,7).
		In 2002, the disease was detected in white-tailed deer on farms in Alberta and Wisconsin (23,25).
		Epizootiology of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging cervids in Colorado and Wyoming.
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/EID/vol10no6/03-1082.htm (6023 words)

	Chronic Wasting Disease at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of deer and elk.
		First recognized as a clinical "wasting" syndrome in 1967 in mule deer in a wildlife research facility in northern Colorado, it was identified as a TSE in 1978.
		In the mid-1980s, CWD was detected in free-ranging deer and elk in contiguous portions of northeastern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Chronic_Wasting_Disease.html (909 words)

	EEK! - Chronic Wasting Disease in Deer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chronic wasting disease is a fatal disease that affects the central nervous system of the infected animal.
		In the spring of 2001, chronic wasting disease was discovered in free-ranging deer in the southwestern corner of Nebraska and also in two wild mule deer in Saskatchewan.
		The first incidence of chronic wasting disease in wild deer east of the Mississippi River was the discovery of the disease in Wisconsin.
	www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/caer/ce/eek/earth/cwdDeer.htm (910 words)

	Wyoming Game and Fish - CWD Artilce - 100
		Since chronic wasting disease first turned up in the wild in 1981, about 100 cases have been reported in wild mule deer, white-tailed deer, and elk, and only eleven of those cases were in Wyoming.
		At this point, chronic wasting disease remains rare in the wild, and it is confined to a few hunt areas in northcentral Colorado and southeastern Wyoming.
		Chronic wasting disease can take several years to claim its victims, and the vets running the studies expect to continue them for as much as a decade.
	gf.state.wy.us /wildlife/wildlife_management/art_cwd.asp (3416 words)

	APHIS \| News
		Based on epidemiology, transmission of CWD is thought to be lateral or from animal to animal; although maternal transmission may occur, it appears to be relatively unimportant in maintaining epidemics.
		CWD in free-ranging deer in Nebraska was detected in 2000/2001; more intensive surveillance to better define the prevalence and distribution of the disease in free-ranging deer in Nebraska is underway.
		All of these agencies are committed to limiting the distribution of the disease in free-ranging deer and elk to the current localized area and decreasing its occurrence in both the free-ranging and farmed deer and elk populations.
	www.aphis.usda.gov /lpa/pubs/fsheet_faq_notice/fs_ahcwd.html (1472 words)

	Chronic Wasting Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chronic wasting disease is a fatal neurological disease that affects deer and elk.
		Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was first recognized by biologists in the 1960s as a disease syndrome of captive deer held in wildlife research facilities in Ft. Collins, Colorado, but was not recognized as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy until the late 1970s.
		Until recently, this disease was largely thought of as a disease of the 11-county region comprised of southeastern Wyoming, northeastern Colorado, and the panhandle region of Nebraska.
	www.azgfd.com /w_c/diseases_chronic_wasting.shtml (1445 words)

	TPWD: Chronic Wasting Disease Fact Sheet
		CWD is an untreatable, fatal neurological (brain and nervous system) disease found in deer and elk in some geographic locations in North America.
		While CWD is similar to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or "mad cow disease") in cattle and scrapie in sheep and goats, there is no known relationship between CWD and any other TSE of animals or people.
		CWD is known to infect free-ranging deer and elk in areas of Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, West Virginia, and Saskatchewan.
	www.tpwd.state.tx.us /huntwild/wild/diseases/cwd (1291 words)

	CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE
		In 1986, CWD claimed an elk in southeastern Wyoming, the first confirmed case of the disease in a wild animal outside of Colorado.
		Although this was not exactly a raging disease outbreak, the spread of the disease had started and wildlife vets and biologists were concerned.
		To know that a disease as serious as CWD is spreading should pain everyone who has ever marveled at a deer slinking over a barbed wire fence.
	www.wildlifedepartment.com /cwd.htm (1933 words)

	Chronic Wasting Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) affecting elk and deer (cervids) in North America.
		APHIS' response to this disease includes support of surveillance in both farmed and wild populations and assistance to State agencies for quarantine of affected animals and premises, humane euthanasia, and testing affected and exposed animals.
		CWD testing can only be performed by approved laboratories that are part of the USDA Contract Laboratory system.
	www.aphis.usda.gov /vs/nahps/cwd (580 words)

	Nebraska Game and Parks Commission - Chronic Wasting Disease Guide - Introduction
		Chronic Wasting Disease, often referred to as CWD, appears to be a prion disease that attacks the central nervous system and causes fatal damage to the brain of white-tailed deer, mule deer, and Rocky Mountain elk.
		CWD is similar to, but significantly different from, scrapie (documented in domestic sheep for over 400 years), Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE and often referred to as mad cow disease) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
		It was once thought that the disease occurs naturally in less than 5 percent of the wild deer population and in about 1 percent of the wild elk population, largely based on studies conducted in the infected areas of Colorado and Wyoming.
	www.ngpc.state.ne.us /wildlife/guides/CWD/cwd.asp (1364 words)

	Chronic Wasting Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CWD causes a characteristic spongy degeneration of the brain leading to loss of body condition, altered behavior, and death.
		CWD was first recognized as a clinical "wasting" syndrome in 1967 in mule deer at a wildlife research facility in northern Colorado.
		The disease does not appear to limit free ranging elk or deer population numbers in the wild, though longer term studies are needed to evaluate long-term effects.
	www.rmef.org /pages/chronic.html (2323 words)

	Livestock Disease Chronic Wasting Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a disease of deer and elk, is one of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) diseases, i.e.
		CWD is thought to be transmitted primarily orally through contaminated feed and water from CWD infected animals, particularly the end-stage clinical CWD animal.
		Chronic wasting disease pathogenesis is not fully understood, although pathogenesis studies have shown when elk are infected orally with CWD-infected material, the tonsils and head lymph nodes will have PrPres present, by immunohistochemical (IHC) staining, two months after oral dosage.
	www.ag.state.co.us /animals/livestock_disease/cwd.html (1004 words)

	Chronic Wasting Disease in New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a rare, fatal, neurological disease found in cervids, members of the deer family.
		It is a transmissible disease that slowly attacks the brain of infected deer and elk, causing the animals to progressively become emaciated, display abnormal behavior and invariably results in the death of the infected animal.
		CWD is one of a group of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) that include scrapie in sheep and goats, transmissible mink encephalopathy of ranched mink, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, known as "mad cow disease", in cattle.
	www.dec.state.ny.us /website/dfwmr/wildlife/deer/cwd.html (1463 words)

	Game and Fish Department, North Dakota \| Chronic Wasting Disease Frequently Asked Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CWD will not likely be fully understood without the assistance, cooperation, and commitment of big game hunters and their families throughout the nation.
		Chronic wasting disease affects the nervous system of white-tailed deer, mule deer and elk and is always fatal.
		CWD is a slowly progressing disease; signs typically are not seen until the animal is 12-18 months of age and may take as long as 3 or more years.
	gf.nd.gov /info/cwd-q-and-a.html (3014 words)

	West Virginia DNR - Chronic Wasting Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CWD is a neurological (brain and nervous system) disease of deer and elk known to occur in limited geographical locations in North America.
		CWD is a slow accumulation of abnormal prions in the brain and lymphatic tissues of deer and elk that ultimately results in the death of the animal.
		The discovery of CWD in Hampshire County, West Virginia represents a significant threat to the state’s white-tailed deer.
	www.wvdnr.gov /Hunting/ChronicWaste.shtm (934 words)

	Sick in the brain
		Chronic wasting disease, AKA CWD, bores holes in the brains of deer and elk.
		Chronic wasting disease has afflicted deer and elk in Colorado and Wyoming for decades.
		Chronic wasting disease is less familiar than its close relative, mad cow disease.
	whyfiles.org /156cwd_deer (565 words)

	Chronic wasting disease - Deer: Minnesota DNR
		CWD (Chronic Wasting Disease) naturally occurs in North American deer and Rocky Mountain Elk.
		The disease was first discovered in Colorado and Wyoming, and has since been detected in wild or captive animals in Illinois, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Montana, Utah, Wisconsin, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
		Unlike the DNR disease surveillance program, this is an effort to provide testing to individual hunters during this fall's deer season.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /mammals/deer/cwd.html (892 words)

	Chronic Wasting Disease
		CWD is caused by an abnormally shaped protein called a prion, which can damage brain and nerve tissue.
		The disease has been found in certain parts of North America and is likely transmitted by animal-to-animal contact and/or contamination of the habitat by a diseased animal.
		CWD is diagnosed with microscopic examination of brain and lymphoid tissue.
	www.mda.state.mn.us /hottopics/cwd.htm (700 words)

	Chronic Wasting Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal brain and nervous system disease found in elk and deer in certain parts of North America.
		The disease is believed to be caused by an abnormally shaped protein called a prion which can damage brain and nerve tissue.
		In later stages of the disease, infected animals become emaciated (thus “wasting” disease).
	www.bah.state.mn.us /diseases/cwd/cwd.htm (227 words)

	Topic - Chronic Wasting Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a progressive, fatal disease affecting the central nervous system of elk and deer, including white-tailed, fl-tailed and mule deer.
		CWD was first diagnosed in Colorado deer in 1967 and is now found in ten states and two Canadian provinces.
		CWD is a one of several TSEs that attack the nervous system of various species.
	healthyamericans.org /topics/index.php?TopicID=13 (453 words)

	Chronic Wasting Disease
		Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal, neurological disease of farmed and wild deer and elk.
		The disease has been identified in wild and captive mule deer, white-tailed deer and North American elk, and in captive fl-tailed deer.
		CWD belongs to the family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs).
	www.agriculture.state.ia.us /cwdprogram.htm (164 words)

	Chronic Wasting Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a debilitating, ultimately fatal disease in deer and elk.
		CWD also occurs in a few captive herds, and appears to be more common in areas where deer and elk congregate at man-made feed and water stations.
		CWD is part of a group of disorders referred to as Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs).
	www.uwyo.edu /CES/PUBS/Chronic.htm (540 words)

	WDFW -- Chronic Wasting Disease
		Chronic wasting disease (CWD), a progressive, fatal illness of deer and elk, has not been found in Washington's wildlife, despite on-going testing of hundreds of animals.
		However, much remains unknown about the way the disease is spread and hunters may wish to take basic precautions in dressing and handling deer and elk.
		Chronic wasting disease has not been found in Washington, and there currently is no scientific evidence of CWD being transmitted from deer or elk to humans.
	wdfw.wa.gov /wlm/cwd (432 words)

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