CWD in Texas

[MidLifeKtm]

CWD has been in other states for decades and it was just a matter of time before it shows up here in Texas. Hopefully the TPWD has learned from other states and doesn't over react.

http://www.cwd-info.org/index.php/fuseaction/recommendations.gmu

[kyle1974]

What is the count up to? 6 deer? Out of an estimated 1.5 million deer in the state. .roughly .00003 percent. Yep. Time to panic and shut down deer breeding.


This is a push from the big ranches in the state that are upset because the deer breeding is getting into their pocket book. People want to say follow the money to deer breeders? You want to see the real money at play, follow it to the king and kennedy.

[popup_menace]

What is the count up to? 6 deer? Out of an estimated 1.5 million deer in the state. .roughly .00003 percent. Yep. Time to panic and shut down deer breeding.


This is a push from the big ranches in the state that are upset because the deer breeding is getting into their pocket book. People want to say follow the money to deer breeders? You want to see the real money at play, follow the it to the king and kennedy.

You're wasting your time here.

[stykshooter]

CWD was found in Neb. in 2000, today it covers 27 of the 93 counties. Resident hunting licenses sales have dropped 12%, wonder why ???

[trophy8]

CWD was found in Neb. in 2000, today it covers 27 of the 93 counties. Resident hunting licenses sales have dropped 12%, wonder why ???

ANd how many deer breeders were involved in that? My guess is about none

[M16]

ANd how many deer breeders were involved in that? My guess is about none

Looks like your guess would be wrong.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/02/massive-disease-outbreak-hits-iowa-deer-farm/16604843/

[stykshooter]

ANd how many deer breeders were involved in that? My guess is about none

Actually it was in a captive whitetail facility in Neb. 2001

Just curious how many of you guys would lease or hunt in a county or even near a ranch that has or could have CWD ???

http://www.cwd-info.org/index.php/fuseaction/about.timeline

[justincorbell]

CWD was found in Neb. in 2000, today it covers 27 of the 93 counties. Resident hunting licenses sales have dropped 12%, wonder why ???

.........Um partially due to the fall of the oil industry coupled with the ever increasing price of hunting and hunting licenses..........

[Hawkpuppy 1]

Here's a baseball bat and a horse..... keep beating it....

[popup_menace]

CWD was found in Neb. in 2000, today it covers 27 of the 93 counties. Resident hunting licenses sales have dropped 12%, wonder why ???

Because hunting license sales across the entire US have dropped in recent years. Blaming it on CWD is extremely coincidental. With Texas as an outlier, not nearly as many people hunt as they did years ago due to either the cost of hunting, the convenience of buying meat, or the states regulating hunting to a point rendering some folks unable to hunt (states that have banned hunting on Sunday).

[tradtiger]

Would be good to see up to the minute information on TPWD's progress in checking animals traced from the Medina facility; also info on the breeders' lawsuit. Also, curious about a biologist saying that there is no danger eating animals infected with CWD, when it's prion-based variants have already proven that they can jump species barriers (Mad Cow Disease). In other words, how about more facts and less emotion on a CWD thread.

[bowhunterchris]

It is hard to know what CWD will do if a human eats the meat because TPWD doesn't know of anyone who has eaten any

[lab man]

It is hard to know what CWD will do if a human eats the meat because TPWD doesn't know of anyone who has eaten any

Maybe they should go talk to this guy. He should be easy to find.

Little snippet from the Lubbock paper.

“Should you be concerned about chronic wasting disease? Yes, but don’t panic,” Walter Cook, clinical associate professor at Texas A&M University, told a large gathering at the annual state convention of the Texas Deer Association that ended on Saturday. “All the evidence out there suggests that humans are not susceptible to chronic wasting disease.

“And we clearly know that people have been eating deer and elk that have chronic wasting disease for decades.”

For instance, 10 years ago he ate elk meat even though he knew the animal had the disease, Cook said.

“I don’t think I am wasting away,” he said as he looked at and then put his hand on his belly. However, there is a standing piece of advice that you never eat the meat of a diseased animal,” Cook said. “That is probably a good piece of advice.”

[bowhunterchris]

Maybe they should go talk to this guy. He should be easy to find.

Little snippet from the Lubbock paper.

“Should you be concerned about chronic wasting disease? Yes, but don’t panic,” Walter Cook, clinical associate professor at Texas A&M University, told a large gathering at the annual state convention of the Texas Deer Association that ended on Saturday. “All the evidence out there suggests that humans are not susceptible to chronic wasting disease.

“And we clearly know that people have been eating deer and elk that have chronic wasting disease for decades.”

For instance, 10 years ago he ate elk meat even though he knew the animal had the disease, Cook said.

“I don’t think I am wasting away,” he said as he looked at and then put his hand on his belly. However, there is a standing piece of advice that you never eat the meat of a diseased animal,” Cook said. “That is probably a good piece of advice.”

I am just paraphrasing what our biologist said in our wildlife management meeting

[tradtiger]

Okay, anecdotal suppositions by a Lubbock scientist is a start, and I don't disagree that people have likely been eating animals that had CWD for quite a while in areas where the disease is prevalent. However, long-term scientific study seems to be required for this particular disease due to the fact that signs of infection may not show up for years, if not decades. And who's to say that the various dementia cases occurring today don't have a root in consumption of tainted venison 30 years ago? Not like eating bad shellfish, which you know right away.