Credit Pacific Service Union State wildlife directors all over the country are worried that a deer version of mad cow disease could spread from Western states, where it is endemic, to other areas. To prevent this, state officials have pushed for state and regional bans on game farms' importation of deer and elk across state lines. The best solution would be a national moratorium on such trafficking, at least until scientists develop a test that can detect the disease in animals before they die.
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Credit First Service Union Chronic wasting disease, or CWD, is a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy caused by misshapen proteins called prions. Although it seems to be invariably fatal, like mad cow disease, there are no known cases of CWD infecting human beings, as has happened with mad cow. Both diseases are similar to a rare, fatal brain disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob that occurs in human beings.
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Card Credit Mobile Service Based on the experience of the West, game farms appear to encourage the transmission of CWD by putting animals in close contact with one another. When the disease was found earlier this year in Wisconsin, its first appearance on this side of the Mississippi, officials in Massachusetts and elsewhere moved to tighten their rules on interstate trafficking of animals, even though there is no proof that it was a game farm animal that brought the contagion to Wisconsin. Whatever the source of the disease there, its effect has been devastating. Officials are planning to kill as many as 20,000 wild deer in the southern part of the state to stop its transmission to the rest of Wisconsin's herd of 1.5 million.
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Card Credit Discover Service In April Massachusetts broadened a previous ban on the importation of native species like white-tailed deer and elk to include other species, such as reindeer and fallow deer. The state has 20 game farms raising such animals for their meat. Unlike many states, Massachusetts does not permit controlled hunts on farms or preserves.
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Credit Public Service Union The restrictions on shipping animals from state to state would not be necessary if there were a way to test creatures for the disease while they are alive. At present, the disease can be confirmed only through examination of brain tissue. According to Rob Deblinger of the state Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, scientists at Colorado State University are working on a blood test that could be administered to live animals, but he does not expect it to be ready for a year at least.
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Card Credit Processing Service A US House committee met on May 16 and decided to shelve plans for a legislative response to CWD until a new working group set up by the US departments of Agriculture and the Interior addresses it. If that group does not take quick and effective action, Congress should pass a national moratorium on interstate deer and elk trafficking.
Center Credit Service Union Boston Globe - 5/27/2002
Topic: Wildlife
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