Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program and Interstate Movement of Farmed or Captive Deer, Elk, and Moose [Docket Number 00-108-3; Final Rule]
Federal Register Online via GPO Access
21 July 2006
SUMMARY: We are establishing a herd certification program to eliminate chronic wasting disease (CWD) from farmed or captive cervids in the United States. Participating deer, elk, and moose herds will have to follow program requirements for animal identification, testing, herd management, and movement of animals into and from herds.
After 5 years of enrollment with no evidence of chronic wasting disease, a herd may be granted ``Certified'' status. Owners of herds may enroll in a State
program that we have determined has requirements equivalent to the Federal program, or may enroll directly in the Federal program if no State program exists.
We are also establishing interstate movement requirements to prevent the interstate movement of deer, elk, and moose that pose a risk of spreading CWD. These actions will help to eliminate CWD from the farmed or captive deer, elk, and moose herds in the United
States.
Research Makes Gains in Fish Disease
Jackson Hole Star Tribune
23 July 2006
Peggy O'Neill
It's a beautiful evening on the Missouri River. Rainbows are rising to tricos, caddis and hoppers. The water is warm enough to wet wade and every riffle and pocket is packed with anglers.
Locals and tourists alike try their luck, but more often than not the discerning rainbows and browns turn their noses at the imitations.
Around the state -- on the Madison, the Yellowstone, the Big Hole, almost every river and stream -- it's a similar scene. Anglers vying for a perfect hole. Trout snubbing their offerings. It's a battle of the wits, which the fish usually win. Unfortunately for anglers, the fish don't win every battle they face. Habitat loss, invasive species, drought and fish diseases take their toll. One fish disease, known as whirling disease, is a particular threat to Montana's wild trout.
This is not new. Whirling disease has been in the United States since at least the 1950s. And it was more than ten years ago when the Madison River made a splash in national headlines, when it was announced that 90 percent of the river's rainbow trout fishery had been decimated and some predicted the demise of the Montana fishing tradition. Since then, whirling disease has fallen off the radar and anglers are out in record numbers. It's as if whirling disease never happened or had been miraculously cured. But that's not necessarily the case.
The worst fears about whirling disease did not come to pass, but whirling disease continues to spread.
Tularemia Diagnosed in Rabbit near Newcastle
The News-Record Online
23 July 2006
Tularemia, a bacterial disease of wildlife which occasionally infects humans, was diagnosed in a cottontail rabbit near Newcastle by the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory last week.
Since then, North Gillette Game Warden John Lund has received reports of dead rabbits and said he suspects the same disease as the cause.
Dr. Cynthia Tate, veterinarian for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, said the disease is not uncommon in rodents and rabbits, and occasionally spills over into other species, including humans.
“It is a disease that occurs almost every year somewhere in Wyoming, so it is something that locals should be aware of, but not alarmed about,” she said. Humans can potentially get the disease by handling infected rabbits or squirrels or possibly by being bit by a tick or fly.
Human cases of tularemia is relatively rare - the Wyoming Department of Health reported only two human cases in 2005. The disease causes localized skin ulcers and swelling of adjacent lymph nodes with fever, aches, nausea and other flu-like symptoms in humans.
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