The paper published a brief article about last year's DNR CWD test findings. Reportedly, 441 of the 6,039 deer tested were positive for CWD resulting in a rate of 7.3 percent. This is lower than the 2015 rate of 9.4 percent. In total, since 2002, 199,812 deer have been tested with 3,575 positive resulting in an overall rate of 1.7 percent. The above information is taken directly from the article in the paper.
Just in case you missed it, thought I'd send this info out along with the following: the 7.3 percentage rate is not evenly spread across Wisconsin. Depending on where you hunt the rate may be greater or lower. There are pockets of concentrated CWD occurrence and areas where CWD has not yet been discovered. Also, one thing that is known is that in the host animal CWD is always fatal. There is no known cure for CWD.
The only thing I would like to add is they are wrong in stating that CWD is always fatal. There is no live test for CWD, therefore to date therefore it is not proven that there are no survivors of CWD. As with any disease, there are some survivors, which make the gene pool stronger.
Just as the Dr. telling you that you have 3 months to live and you are still alive six years after being diagnosed.
Never say never.
WTF??
You just know some dummy is going to screw this up and report a good looking sick deer, mark my words it'll happen!
Robinson and her colleagues estimate that about 41 percent of all deer in the original CWD core area have CWD-resistant genes, which they will pass on to offspring. If natural selection follows its normal progression, deer that are CWD-resistant should become dominant in a few hundred years"
" There is no known cure for CWD.".....Nature?
It must suck living the life of a grumpy miserable tool taking cheap shots at landowners because you don't have crap and are jealous. Pathetic.
We try but you jack wagons are always posted on our fence lines.
Considering it takes about 1 1/2 yrs from infection to test positive for CWD, a majority of dead deer will never test positive. Chances are a good amount of hunters in CWD areas have eaten an infected deer. Since I'm probably infected, my will requests me to be buried in a ziplock bag wearing a tinfoil helmet.
Of course, buried surounded by good bait seed so in 10 years, when my ziplock deteriorates, my CWD is gone and all the little critters benefit from my rotting corpes' bait pile with roots.
Are any of us susceptible to having CWD cross over to humans by consuming venison? Hard to say. Do I want mankind meddling with the disease and trying to duplicate it in a lab to protect humans? I don't think so. Why? Because CWD hasn't found it's way into humans yet and I don't want man to be the reason that the disease mutates and crosses over.
In my mind there are too many "Cry Wolf" stories brought to our attention. Is this the fault of the media? No, I don't believe so. I point that finger at the governmental agencies meddling in an area they shouldn't be.
Yeah, it;s that finger!!
