CWD May be Transmitted in Feces

[Ben Sobieck]

Source: University of California, San Fransisco
Scientists have discovered that deer asymptomatic for a fatal brain condition known as chronic wasting disease excrete the infectious prions that cause the disease in their feces. The finding, they say, suggests a plausible explanation for transmission of the disease among deer and, possibly, elk and moose in the environment.

The study is reported as an advance online paper on September 9, 2009 in the journal "Nature."

While the study reveals that prions are shed in feces of symptomatic deer as well, the discovery that the infected deer shed prions (PREE-ons) in their feces many months before they show clinical symptoms has particularly provocative implications, according to the research team, at University of California, San Francisco and the Colorado Division of Wildlife's Wildlife Research Center.

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[hunt4fun]

As a result, the DNR is requesting your help by asking that all sportsmen take to the woods wearing latex gloves and picking up any deer droppings they encounter and sending them to the DNR to be tested.  If droppings test positive for the prions, the DNR will burn a 100 acre area around where the droppings were found in order to prevent future break out.

[buckhunter21]

Thanks for the info Ben.  For some reason this doesn't surprise me.... :/

[eemer]

It is also how brain-worm is transferred between deer and moose as well

[mightyfofaad]

ORIGINAL: Ben Sobieck


Scientists have discovered that deer asymptomatic for a fatal brain condition known as chronic wasting disease excrete the infectious prions that cause the disease in their feces. The finding, they say, suggests a plausible explanation for transmission of the disease among deer and, possibly, elk and moose in the environment.

The study is reported as an advance online paper on September 9, 2009 in the journal "Nature."

While the study reveals that prions are shed in feces of symptomatic deer as well, the discovery that the infected deer shed prions (PREE-ons) in their feces many months before they show clinical symptoms has particularly provocative implications, according to the research team, at University of California, San Francisco and the Colorado Division of Wildlife's Wildlife Research Center.

SIGNS YOUR DEER MAY HAVE CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE

[Challenger]

ORIGINAL: mightyfofaad


SIGNS YOUR DEER MAY HAVE CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE

Yup, that deer looks pretty well wasted to me. [:o]