Nevada Deer and Elk Free of Chronic Wasting Disease
elynews.com
2006 April 7
CARSON CITY (NDOW) -- Preliminary results of tests conducted on brain tissue samples of 150 deer and elk collected in Nevada during the past year have all tested negative for chronic wasting disease (CWD), according to Dr. Dan Crowell of the Nevada Department of Agriculture.
Crowell, a senior veterinary diagnostician, said Nevada has been participating in a national effort to monitor for CWD, a disease of the central nervous system of cervids, such as deer and elk.
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Since testing began in the state in 1998, nearly 950 animals have been tested and none were found to have the disease. Results from a few of the more recently collected samples have not yet been received from the lab that does the testing. “Our participation with the U.S Department of Agriculture in the survey does not necessarily mean that it (CWD) is in the state,” said Crowell. “Rather, we think that this testing is the responsible thing to do.”
Fears of Diseased Fish in Rivers Quelled
The Union.Com
2006 April 8
David Bunker
No diseased fish will be introduced into the Truckee River system, according to federal fishery officials.
Despite concerns that prompted the Nevada County Board of Supervisors to send a letter to the California Department of Fish and Game about the matter, the stocking of Lahontan cutthroat trout from the fish hatchery in Gardnerville, Nev., will not occur after the presence of a kidney bacterial disease was detected in one fish, said Lisa Heki, fishery manager for the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife.
"We do not stock positive-testing fish anywhere," Heki said. "And the California Department of Fish and Game requirements do not allow them to accept (positive-testing fish)."
Heki said despite the positive test for the bacteria, no fish are showing any signs of the disease at the Gardnerville hatchery.
"The fish themselves are healthy and don't exhibit the disease," she said.
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