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Mar. 9—The COVID-19 pandemic forced wildlife agencies last fall to scale back their efforts to test for chronic wasting disease, the fatal neurological disorder that affects deer, moose and elk.
The Michigan DNR posted reporting numbers Tuesday morning for Firearm deer season with 73,005 deer taken since the start of the season Nov. 15. Of that total, 52,991 were bucks, or antlered deer.
Figures posted online Monday morning show hunters took 132,810 deer in 2024 — about 5,000 fewer than reported for 2023 and far lower than in 2022 when hunters took 154,940 deer, the DNR said.
Chronic wasting disease (CWD), sometimes called zombie deer disease, is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) affecting deer.TSEs are a family of diseases thought to be caused by misfolded proteins called prions and include similar diseases such as BSE (mad cow disease) in cattle, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and scrapie in sheep. [2]
The Michigan DNR said more than 61,000 deer have been taken in the first three days of the firearm deer season, but not many does. Michigan hunters shot more than 61,000 deer already. Here's where ...
Canada also expanded testing to other cervids besides white-tailed deer, finding that both white-tailed deer and mule deer tested positive for the same variants circulating among the two species in the United States, whereas elk and moose did not exhibit exposure. [13] Mule deer as far west as California had already been infected by 2021. [26]
Deer with the peracute form of the disease may go into shock 8–36 hours after the onset of symptoms, and are found lying dead. [2] Death is also common in deer with acute EHD, which is generally comparable to peracute EHD and is characterized by excessive salivation, nasal discharge, and hemorrhaging of the skin. [ 4 ]
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