While CWD has received a lot of hype, it has also taken attention away from other pressing deer-health issues.
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Why Deer Baiting Bans Fail to Curb Disease Spread
New data shows restrictions on baiting don’t significantly impact chronic wasting disease transmission.
Bastian Believed CWD Cure Was Attainable
Dr. Frank Bastian, who created the first test for CWD and other TSE diseases that can be used on a living animal or person, has recently passed away.
5 Troubling Claims From Missouri CWD Report
In an open letter to state residents, Missouri’s director of conservation expressed his utmost desire to protect the state’s whitetail resource from CWD, but we cannot help but take him to task for several erroneous statements made in the nearly 1,000-word press release.
Missouri Pauses CWD Slaughter
In a major turn of events, Missouri is calling off its post-season whitetail slaughter, which was aimed to “fight” chronic wasting disease.
#186: WHAT DEER CAN SEE with Dr. D’Angelo & Dr. Jorge | Deer Talk Now Podcast
Learn some wild and important facts about the white-tailed deer in this podcast with Dr. D’Angelo and Dr. Jorge from how deer see scrapes at night, detailed insights into how deer vision works, and how CWD will affect the future of deer hunting.
#182: THE CWD NARRATIVE IS FALSE with Dusty Backer | Deer Talk Now Podcast
Hunting rights activist Dusty Backer and Dan Schmidt discuss why the narrative about CWD doesn’t make sense given the actual research about the disease and why laws that supposedly prevent the spread of CWD actually have the opposite effect.
#170: LIVE ANIMAL TESTING & CWD with Brian Dart | Deer Talk Now Podcast
In this episode of Deer Talk Now, Dan Schmidt talks with Texas wildlife biologist Brian Dart, author of the article “Is Live Animal Testing Causing the Spread of CWD?” The two explore the questions raised in Dart’s piece, focusing on how live animal testing is conducted and what potential implications it may have for the management of chronic wasting disease.
Another State Lifts Deer Bait Ban
A state is updating its CWD response plan with the repeal of baiting bans and a new September rifle season for antlerless deer in CWD Surveillance Zones.
This is the Key to Slowing CWD
Want to slow the spread of chronic wasting disease? Kill more bucks. That’s what researchers are saying after posting the results of a years-long study.