Chronic wasting disease in free-ranging Wisconsin White-tailed Deer.
Three White-tailed Deer shot within 5 km during the 2001 hunting season in Wisconsin tested positive for chronic wasting disease, a prion disease of cervids. Subsequent sampling within 18 km showed a 3% prevalence (n=476). This discovery represents an important range extension for chronic wasting disease into the eastern United States.
Department of Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 218 Russell Labs, Madison, WI 53706, USA. dojoly@wisc.edu
Damien O
DO
Joly
Christine A
CA
Ribic
Julie A
JA
Langenberg
Kerry
K
Beheler
Carl A
CA
Batha
Brian J
BJ
Dhuey
Robert E
RE
Rolley
Gerald
G
Bartelt
Timothy R
TR
Van Deelen
Michael D
MD
Samuel
D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism; D003670:Deer; D005260:Female; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000737:chemistry; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D011328:Prions / Q000032:analysis; D034081:Wasting Disease, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014922:Wisconsin / Q000453:epidemiology
D011328:Prions