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Pennsylvania Joint Public Hearing Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Game and Fisheries Committees on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
Joint Public Hearing on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
Posted on Feb 07, 2022
Joint Public Hearing of the
Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Game and Fisheries Committees
on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.
Bedford American Legion
3721 US 220 BUS
Bedford PA, 15522
SEE VIDEO;
Joint Public Hearing on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) - Pennsylvania Senate Republicans
www.pasenategop.com/blog/ag-020922/
Chronic wasting disease, or CWD, is a brain disease that affects cervid species including deer and elk. This disease is incurable, untreatable, and always fatal. CWD is contagious and can spread through exposure to contaminated environments and by direct animal-to-animal contact. CWD-infected animals may not show clinical signs of the disease for up to 18-24 months post infection. During this period, animals look and act normal, but they are spreading the disease across the landscape and to other animals. CWD is a persistent problem affecting deer and potentially elk in Pennsylvania, requiring a long-term, strategic, and coordinated response involving the Game Commission, Department of Agriculture, and public partnerships.
There is much that is still unknown about CWD, but the things we do know are quite alarming. Research conducted on CWD has demonstrated that plants can uptake CWD prions and remain infectious; soils retain infectious CWD prions for years; and water sources can be contaminated with CWD prions. To date, according to the Center for Disease Control there is no reported cases of CWD in humans. However, the risk is never zero and common sense dictates that eating meat from an animal that is infected with CWD is never recommended. For these reasons, limiting potential exposure of all species, including people, is an important component of the Game Commission’s response to CWD.
The Game Commission, which was created to safeguard public wildlife resources, is responsible for taking steps to manage CWD. The Game Commission’s management actions are informed by the best available science combined with public input. Unfortunately, these necessary actions may negatively impact or disrupt some people’s experiences with deer in areas where CWD has been found.
There are three main objectives in the Game Commission’s CWD management efforts: 1) prevent human caused spread of CWD, 2) prevent CWD infections in new areas from becoming established, and 3) limit sample prevalence in areas where the disease is already established.
The actions taken and resources needed when a CWD detection is found in a new area are extensive. For example, Disease Management Area 5, or DMA 5, was created as a result of detecting CWD in a captive facility that was about 50 miles from any other CWD detection. Because of this single detection, a new DMA had to be established. Now, all hunters and the public in that area have to abide by additional regulations and restrictions. To increase CWD surveillance and testing, head collection bins were deployed and road-kill contracts initiated. And just as importantly, numerous communications and outreach activities occurred including a public meeting, mailing of letters and postcards, newspaper articles, social media posts, and direct phone calls to landowners. A new extraction station had to be created to handle the additional samples because the DMA was so far from other CWD locations. CWD isn’t just a problem because of its effect on deer and elk. It is also extremely costly in terms of agency resources and staff time.
Beyond responding to new CWD detections, the Game Commission maintains a robust CWD management program. The cost of the CWD program has quadrupled over the past five years to over $2.5M+ annually. Each year, we are collecting samples and testing more than 10,000 deer and elk from across Pennsylvania. Cooperation of Pennsylvania’s hunters combined with the Game Commission’s commitment of staff and financial resources makes this level of testing possible. Communications also are critical to CWD management. The public relies on the Game Commission for credible and up-to-date information on CWD. In addition to the obvious communications capabilities of webpages, social media, and news releases, the Game Commission direct mailed more than 20,000 postcards and letters to hunters affected by CWD DMAs in the last year.
The Game Commission also maintains a robust CWD research program. With the support of the Wildlife Futures Program and the Penn State Co-op, we are currently conducting CWD research that is used to direct our CWD management decisions. Additionally, a major part of the $9.8M Wildlife Futures Program has been investigating novel surveillance techniques like RT-QuIC and CWD detection dogs. Our location here in Bedford County is at the heart of Pennsylvania’s CWD infections. Along with portions of Blair and Fulton counties, this area is part of an Established Area. Approximately 90% of the CWD detections found in free-ranging deer have come from this area. Each year, the sample prevalence here has continued to increase. This past hunting season, 17%, or 1 in 6 hunter-harvested adult deer tested positive for CWD (in Bedford County, it was 25%). Antlerless allocations have been increased in the associated Wildlife Management Units as increasing harvest is the only management method available. And like the slow, insidious spread of CWD we have seen, these efforts will also take time before effects can be seen.
Responding to wildlife diseases is one of the Game Commission’s most important roles, and CWD management will require a sustained, long-term commitment of resources to be effective. As we have seen across the state, we cannot separate wild deer and captive deer when it comes to CWD management. It is essential that we consider deer a “collective herd.” The Game Commission has worked cooperatively with PDA and other agencies in these efforts and continues to be ready to provide our expertise and resources to address CWD when and where needed. No one agency can do it all. However, the current legislation prohibits our ability to support PDA in their effort to combat CWD. This is unfortunate because the PGC has subject matter expertise related to wildlife populations and disease management through veterinarians, biologists and game wardens working with landowners and hunters to protect natural resources.
The Game Commission has taken up the fight against CWD because Pennsylvania residents’ value healthy wildlife populations. Stakeholder support and participation will make our efforts successful. The Game Commission will continue to use the best available scientific information to respond to CWD as we fulfill our mission to manage and protect wildlife and their habitats, while promoting hunting and trapping, for current and future generations.
agriculture.pasenategop.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2022/02/PGC-CWD-Testimony-Senate-Game-and-Fish-20220204b.pdf
ADVISORY – WEDNESDAY – Joint Public Hearing on Chronic Wasting Disease Posted on Feb 07, 2022
A joint hearing about Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) will be held in Bedford, PA on Wednesday, Feb.9 by the Senate’s Game and Fisheries and Agriculture and Rural Affairs committees, according to committee chairs Sen. Dan Laughlin, R-49, and Sen. Elder Vogel, R-47.
Since first being detected in Pennsylvania deer roughly a decade ago, CWD has spread to all or part of 27 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties.
The neurological disease affects members of the cervid family (deer, elk, moose, and reindeer/caribou). The abnormal proteins that cause CWD are shed in saliva, urine, and feces, meaning animals can be infected via animal-to-animal contact or through contaminated environments. CWD-infected animals might not show symptoms of the disease for 18 to 24 months, but all white-tailed deer and elk that contract CWD die, there are no exceptions.
Following detection of CWD, the Pennsylvania Game Commission established Disease Management Areas (DMAs) – currently there are four across the state – within which there is a prohibition of the rehabilitation of cervids (deer, elk and moose); the use or possession of cervid urine-based attractants in an outdoor setting; the removal of high-risk cervid parts; and the feeding of wild, free-ranging cervids. Additionally, increased testing continues in these areas to determine the distribution of the disease.
Managing CWD in Pennsylvania continues to be a difficult proposition and it will require a long-term commitment. A response plan was developed by the Pennsylvania Game Commission in 2020 with a number of prescriptions, including the prevention of human-caused introductions of CWD into free-ranging cervid populations outside of DMAs; the quick detection of CWD infections in new areas so management strategies can be implemented at the earliest opportunity; limiting sample prevalence to ≤ 1% in adult deer and meet surveillance goals within enhanced surveillance units (ESUs); preventing the disease from becoming established or spreading farther on the landscape in containment zones (CZs); limiting sample prevalence to ≤5% in hunter-harvested adult deer within established areas (EAs); and fostering two-way communications and utilizing human dimension techniques to assess stakeholder values and opinions on Game Commission CWD management efforts.
Additionally, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture operates two programs – the CWD Herd Certification Program (HCP) and the CWD Herd Monitored Program (HMP) – for premises that have farmed or captive Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) susceptible species. Participation in one of these programs is mandatory. In either option, CWD testing is required with sampling performed by certified CWD technicians, accredited veterinarians or state/federal government officials.
The Alliance for Public Wildlife, a group of scientists and professionals whose stated goal is establishing, developing, promoting, and defending principles and policies that will ensure the conservation of North American wildlife, has produced documents (The Challenge of CWD: Insidious and Dire, as well as a supplement to that analysis) examining the science behind CWD, the history and process of its spread, and the public policy implications and recommendations for dealing with it.
The joint hearing will feature testimony from Bryan Burhans, executive director of the Pennsylvania Game Commission; Kevin Brightbill, Pennsylvania’s state veterinarian and director of the Bureau of Animal Health and Diagnostic Services within the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture; Gregory Hostetter, the deputy secretary for Animal Health and Food Safety within the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture; Torin Miller, director of policy for the National Deer Association; and Josh Newton, president of the Pennsylvania Deer Farmers Association.
WHAT: Joint public hearing of the Senate’s Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Game and Fisheries committees about Chronic Wasting Disease.
WHEN: 5 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 9
WHERE: Bedford American Legion, 3721 US 220 BUS, Bedford PA, 15522
HEARING LIVESTREAM: www.pasenategop.com/video/liveu1/
CONTACT: Koty McGowan kmcgowan@pasen.gov
Cara Laudenslager claudenslager@pasen.gov
www.pasenategop.com/blog/advisory-wednesday-joint-public-hearing-on-chronic-wasting-disease/
CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CASES CWD STATUS OF CAPTIVE HERDS AS OF February 2022
CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CASES CWD STATUS OF CAPTIVE HERDS
Date of Index Case Confirmation Index Case State County Species Herd Type HCP Enrolled HCP Certified Number of Animals Herd Status
2/23/2022 4.5 Y Male PA Lancaster WTD Shooter No No 93 Quarantine
1/12/2022 6.5 Y Female WV Hardy WTD Shooter Yes Yes 18 Quarantine
1/5/2022 4.5 Y Female PA Lycoming WTD Shooter No No 177 Quarantine
11/8/2021 3 Y Male WI Waukesha WTD/ Elk Breeder Yes Yes 22 Quarantine
11/4/2021 2, 3 Y Male MI Kent Elk Breeder Yes Yes 0 Depopulated
10/18/2021 9 Y Female WI Portage WTD Shooter No No 370 Quarantine
10/14/2021 11.5 Y Female PA Fulton WTD Hobby No No 1 Quarantine
10/14/2021 2.5 Y Male PA Bedford WTD Breeder No No 70 Quarantine
10/12/2021 4.5 Y Female PA Indiana Red Deer Shooter No No 14 Quarantine
10/5/2021 1.5 Y Male PA Bedford WTD Shooter No No 50 Quarantine 9/27/2021 Y Male WI Vilas WTD Shooter No No Quarantine
9/27/2021 4.5 Y Male PA Huntingdon WTD Breeder No No 137 Quarantine
9/21/2021 1 Y Male PA Blair WTD Breeder No No 26 Quarantine
9/9/2021 3.5 Y Male PA Bedford WTD Breeder No No 36 Quarantine
9/2/2021 11 Y Female WI Outagamie WTD Breeder Yes Yes 31 Quarantine
8/31/2021 1 Y Female WI Langlade WTD Breeder Yes Yes 58 Quarantine
8/31/2021 2 Y Male WV Hampshire WTD Breeder Yes Yes 23 Quarantine
8/26/2021 4 Y Male PA Bedford WTD Shooter No No >200 Quarantine
8/24/2021 3Y Female TX Duval WTD Breeder No No 188 Quarantine
8/11/2021 6 Y Female WI Taylor WTD Breeder Yes Yes 220 Quarantine
8/9/2021 9 Y Male WI Sauk WTD Hobby No No 1 Quarantine
7/15/2021 4 Y Female MI Montcalm WTD Breeder No No 109 Quarantine
6/15/2021 4 Y Female TX Uvalde WTD Breeder & Shooter No No 1000+ Quarantine
5/28/2021 9 Y Female PA Bedford WTD Breeder No No 29 Quarantine
5/12/2021 2.5 Y Male PA Warren WTD Shooter No No 19 Depopulated
5/10/2021 3 Y Female MN Beltrami WTD Breeder No No 61 Depopulated
4/20/2021 Six positives PA Bedford WTD Breeder Traceback No No 87 Depopulated
4/20/2021 1.5 Y Male TX Mason WTD Breeder Traceback Yes Yes 93 Depopulated
4/20/2021 1.5 Y Male TX Matagorda WTD Breeder Traceback Yes No 221 Depopulated
4/18/2021 2.5 Y Male MI WTD Shooter No No ukn Quarantine
3/30/2021 3.5 Y, 2.5 Y, 3.5Y TX Uvalde WTD Breeder Yes Yes 61 Quarantine
3/30/2021 2.5 Y & 1.5 Y TX Uvalde WTD Breeder Yes No 318 Quarantine
3/29/2021 3Y Female TX Hunt WTD Breeder Yes No 381 Quarantine
3/29/2021 4 Y Female PA Blair WTD Breeder No NA 11 Quarantine
3/19/2021 3.75 Y Male PA Bedford WTD Hobby No NA 8 Quarantine
3/3/2021 4 Y Male MI Montcalm WTD Shooter No NA 14 Quarantine
2/8/2021 3.5 Y Male PA Blair WTD Shooter No NA 19 Quarantine
12/30/2020 Ukn Y Female PA Bedford WTD Shooter No NA 51 Quarantine
12/15/2020 2.5 Y Female PA Fulton WTD Hobby No NA 19 Quarantine
11/18/2020 2.5 Y Female KS Rawlins MD Breeder Yes Yes 70 Quarantine
10/29/2020 2 Y Male PA Somerset WTD Shooter No No 0 Depopulated
10/14/2020 2 Y Male SD Custer Elk Breeder/Hobby No NA 6 Quarantine
10/14/2020 2.5 Y Female MN Houston WTD Breeder Yes yes 49 Quarantine
10/1/2020 MT WTD Breeder No NA 17 Depopulated
10/1/2020 4 Y Male WI Washburn WTD Breeder Yes No 21 Quarantine
9/23/2020 6 Y Female UT Duchesne Elk Breeder No NA 55 Partial Depopulation/ Quarantine
7/2/2020 3 Y Female KS Osage Elk Breeder Yes Yes 20+ Depopulated
Updated February 2022
snip...see full list ;
www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_diseases/cwd/downloads/status-of-captive-herds.pdf
www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-disease-information/cervid/cervids-cwd/cervids-voluntary-hcp
chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2022/05/pennsylvania-joint-public-hearing.html
kind regards, terry
Joint Public Hearing on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
Posted on Feb 07, 2022
Joint Public Hearing of the
Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Game and Fisheries Committees
on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.
Bedford American Legion
3721 US 220 BUS
Bedford PA, 15522
SEE VIDEO;
Joint Public Hearing on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) - Pennsylvania Senate Republicans
www.pasenategop.com/blog/ag-020922/
Chronic wasting disease, or CWD, is a brain disease that affects cervid species including deer and elk. This disease is incurable, untreatable, and always fatal. CWD is contagious and can spread through exposure to contaminated environments and by direct animal-to-animal contact. CWD-infected animals may not show clinical signs of the disease for up to 18-24 months post infection. During this period, animals look and act normal, but they are spreading the disease across the landscape and to other animals. CWD is a persistent problem affecting deer and potentially elk in Pennsylvania, requiring a long-term, strategic, and coordinated response involving the Game Commission, Department of Agriculture, and public partnerships.
There is much that is still unknown about CWD, but the things we do know are quite alarming. Research conducted on CWD has demonstrated that plants can uptake CWD prions and remain infectious; soils retain infectious CWD prions for years; and water sources can be contaminated with CWD prions. To date, according to the Center for Disease Control there is no reported cases of CWD in humans. However, the risk is never zero and common sense dictates that eating meat from an animal that is infected with CWD is never recommended. For these reasons, limiting potential exposure of all species, including people, is an important component of the Game Commission’s response to CWD.
The Game Commission, which was created to safeguard public wildlife resources, is responsible for taking steps to manage CWD. The Game Commission’s management actions are informed by the best available science combined with public input. Unfortunately, these necessary actions may negatively impact or disrupt some people’s experiences with deer in areas where CWD has been found.
There are three main objectives in the Game Commission’s CWD management efforts: 1) prevent human caused spread of CWD, 2) prevent CWD infections in new areas from becoming established, and 3) limit sample prevalence in areas where the disease is already established.
The actions taken and resources needed when a CWD detection is found in a new area are extensive. For example, Disease Management Area 5, or DMA 5, was created as a result of detecting CWD in a captive facility that was about 50 miles from any other CWD detection. Because of this single detection, a new DMA had to be established. Now, all hunters and the public in that area have to abide by additional regulations and restrictions. To increase CWD surveillance and testing, head collection bins were deployed and road-kill contracts initiated. And just as importantly, numerous communications and outreach activities occurred including a public meeting, mailing of letters and postcards, newspaper articles, social media posts, and direct phone calls to landowners. A new extraction station had to be created to handle the additional samples because the DMA was so far from other CWD locations. CWD isn’t just a problem because of its effect on deer and elk. It is also extremely costly in terms of agency resources and staff time.
Beyond responding to new CWD detections, the Game Commission maintains a robust CWD management program. The cost of the CWD program has quadrupled over the past five years to over $2.5M+ annually. Each year, we are collecting samples and testing more than 10,000 deer and elk from across Pennsylvania. Cooperation of Pennsylvania’s hunters combined with the Game Commission’s commitment of staff and financial resources makes this level of testing possible. Communications also are critical to CWD management. The public relies on the Game Commission for credible and up-to-date information on CWD. In addition to the obvious communications capabilities of webpages, social media, and news releases, the Game Commission direct mailed more than 20,000 postcards and letters to hunters affected by CWD DMAs in the last year.
The Game Commission also maintains a robust CWD research program. With the support of the Wildlife Futures Program and the Penn State Co-op, we are currently conducting CWD research that is used to direct our CWD management decisions. Additionally, a major part of the $9.8M Wildlife Futures Program has been investigating novel surveillance techniques like RT-QuIC and CWD detection dogs. Our location here in Bedford County is at the heart of Pennsylvania’s CWD infections. Along with portions of Blair and Fulton counties, this area is part of an Established Area. Approximately 90% of the CWD detections found in free-ranging deer have come from this area. Each year, the sample prevalence here has continued to increase. This past hunting season, 17%, or 1 in 6 hunter-harvested adult deer tested positive for CWD (in Bedford County, it was 25%). Antlerless allocations have been increased in the associated Wildlife Management Units as increasing harvest is the only management method available. And like the slow, insidious spread of CWD we have seen, these efforts will also take time before effects can be seen.
Responding to wildlife diseases is one of the Game Commission’s most important roles, and CWD management will require a sustained, long-term commitment of resources to be effective. As we have seen across the state, we cannot separate wild deer and captive deer when it comes to CWD management. It is essential that we consider deer a “collective herd.” The Game Commission has worked cooperatively with PDA and other agencies in these efforts and continues to be ready to provide our expertise and resources to address CWD when and where needed. No one agency can do it all. However, the current legislation prohibits our ability to support PDA in their effort to combat CWD. This is unfortunate because the PGC has subject matter expertise related to wildlife populations and disease management through veterinarians, biologists and game wardens working with landowners and hunters to protect natural resources.
The Game Commission has taken up the fight against CWD because Pennsylvania residents’ value healthy wildlife populations. Stakeholder support and participation will make our efforts successful. The Game Commission will continue to use the best available scientific information to respond to CWD as we fulfill our mission to manage and protect wildlife and their habitats, while promoting hunting and trapping, for current and future generations.
agriculture.pasenategop.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2022/02/PGC-CWD-Testimony-Senate-Game-and-Fish-20220204b.pdf
ADVISORY – WEDNESDAY – Joint Public Hearing on Chronic Wasting Disease Posted on Feb 07, 2022
A joint hearing about Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) will be held in Bedford, PA on Wednesday, Feb.9 by the Senate’s Game and Fisheries and Agriculture and Rural Affairs committees, according to committee chairs Sen. Dan Laughlin, R-49, and Sen. Elder Vogel, R-47.
Since first being detected in Pennsylvania deer roughly a decade ago, CWD has spread to all or part of 27 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties.
The neurological disease affects members of the cervid family (deer, elk, moose, and reindeer/caribou). The abnormal proteins that cause CWD are shed in saliva, urine, and feces, meaning animals can be infected via animal-to-animal contact or through contaminated environments. CWD-infected animals might not show symptoms of the disease for 18 to 24 months, but all white-tailed deer and elk that contract CWD die, there are no exceptions.
Following detection of CWD, the Pennsylvania Game Commission established Disease Management Areas (DMAs) – currently there are four across the state – within which there is a prohibition of the rehabilitation of cervids (deer, elk and moose); the use or possession of cervid urine-based attractants in an outdoor setting; the removal of high-risk cervid parts; and the feeding of wild, free-ranging cervids. Additionally, increased testing continues in these areas to determine the distribution of the disease.
Managing CWD in Pennsylvania continues to be a difficult proposition and it will require a long-term commitment. A response plan was developed by the Pennsylvania Game Commission in 2020 with a number of prescriptions, including the prevention of human-caused introductions of CWD into free-ranging cervid populations outside of DMAs; the quick detection of CWD infections in new areas so management strategies can be implemented at the earliest opportunity; limiting sample prevalence to ≤ 1% in adult deer and meet surveillance goals within enhanced surveillance units (ESUs); preventing the disease from becoming established or spreading farther on the landscape in containment zones (CZs); limiting sample prevalence to ≤5% in hunter-harvested adult deer within established areas (EAs); and fostering two-way communications and utilizing human dimension techniques to assess stakeholder values and opinions on Game Commission CWD management efforts.
Additionally, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture operates two programs – the CWD Herd Certification Program (HCP) and the CWD Herd Monitored Program (HMP) – for premises that have farmed or captive Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) susceptible species. Participation in one of these programs is mandatory. In either option, CWD testing is required with sampling performed by certified CWD technicians, accredited veterinarians or state/federal government officials.
The Alliance for Public Wildlife, a group of scientists and professionals whose stated goal is establishing, developing, promoting, and defending principles and policies that will ensure the conservation of North American wildlife, has produced documents (The Challenge of CWD: Insidious and Dire, as well as a supplement to that analysis) examining the science behind CWD, the history and process of its spread, and the public policy implications and recommendations for dealing with it.
The joint hearing will feature testimony from Bryan Burhans, executive director of the Pennsylvania Game Commission; Kevin Brightbill, Pennsylvania’s state veterinarian and director of the Bureau of Animal Health and Diagnostic Services within the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture; Gregory Hostetter, the deputy secretary for Animal Health and Food Safety within the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture; Torin Miller, director of policy for the National Deer Association; and Josh Newton, president of the Pennsylvania Deer Farmers Association.
WHAT: Joint public hearing of the Senate’s Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Game and Fisheries committees about Chronic Wasting Disease.
WHEN: 5 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 9
WHERE: Bedford American Legion, 3721 US 220 BUS, Bedford PA, 15522
HEARING LIVESTREAM: www.pasenategop.com/video/liveu1/
CONTACT: Koty McGowan kmcgowan@pasen.gov
Cara Laudenslager claudenslager@pasen.gov
www.pasenategop.com/blog/advisory-wednesday-joint-public-hearing-on-chronic-wasting-disease/
CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CASES CWD STATUS OF CAPTIVE HERDS AS OF February 2022
CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CASES CWD STATUS OF CAPTIVE HERDS
Date of Index Case Confirmation Index Case State County Species Herd Type HCP Enrolled HCP Certified Number of Animals Herd Status
2/23/2022 4.5 Y Male PA Lancaster WTD Shooter No No 93 Quarantine
1/12/2022 6.5 Y Female WV Hardy WTD Shooter Yes Yes 18 Quarantine
1/5/2022 4.5 Y Female PA Lycoming WTD Shooter No No 177 Quarantine
11/8/2021 3 Y Male WI Waukesha WTD/ Elk Breeder Yes Yes 22 Quarantine
11/4/2021 2, 3 Y Male MI Kent Elk Breeder Yes Yes 0 Depopulated
10/18/2021 9 Y Female WI Portage WTD Shooter No No 370 Quarantine
10/14/2021 11.5 Y Female PA Fulton WTD Hobby No No 1 Quarantine
10/14/2021 2.5 Y Male PA Bedford WTD Breeder No No 70 Quarantine
10/12/2021 4.5 Y Female PA Indiana Red Deer Shooter No No 14 Quarantine
10/5/2021 1.5 Y Male PA Bedford WTD Shooter No No 50 Quarantine 9/27/2021 Y Male WI Vilas WTD Shooter No No Quarantine
9/27/2021 4.5 Y Male PA Huntingdon WTD Breeder No No 137 Quarantine
9/21/2021 1 Y Male PA Blair WTD Breeder No No 26 Quarantine
9/9/2021 3.5 Y Male PA Bedford WTD Breeder No No 36 Quarantine
9/2/2021 11 Y Female WI Outagamie WTD Breeder Yes Yes 31 Quarantine
8/31/2021 1 Y Female WI Langlade WTD Breeder Yes Yes 58 Quarantine
8/31/2021 2 Y Male WV Hampshire WTD Breeder Yes Yes 23 Quarantine
8/26/2021 4 Y Male PA Bedford WTD Shooter No No >200 Quarantine
8/24/2021 3Y Female TX Duval WTD Breeder No No 188 Quarantine
8/11/2021 6 Y Female WI Taylor WTD Breeder Yes Yes 220 Quarantine
8/9/2021 9 Y Male WI Sauk WTD Hobby No No 1 Quarantine
7/15/2021 4 Y Female MI Montcalm WTD Breeder No No 109 Quarantine
6/15/2021 4 Y Female TX Uvalde WTD Breeder & Shooter No No 1000+ Quarantine
5/28/2021 9 Y Female PA Bedford WTD Breeder No No 29 Quarantine
5/12/2021 2.5 Y Male PA Warren WTD Shooter No No 19 Depopulated
5/10/2021 3 Y Female MN Beltrami WTD Breeder No No 61 Depopulated
4/20/2021 Six positives PA Bedford WTD Breeder Traceback No No 87 Depopulated
4/20/2021 1.5 Y Male TX Mason WTD Breeder Traceback Yes Yes 93 Depopulated
4/20/2021 1.5 Y Male TX Matagorda WTD Breeder Traceback Yes No 221 Depopulated
4/18/2021 2.5 Y Male MI WTD Shooter No No ukn Quarantine
3/30/2021 3.5 Y, 2.5 Y, 3.5Y TX Uvalde WTD Breeder Yes Yes 61 Quarantine
3/30/2021 2.5 Y & 1.5 Y TX Uvalde WTD Breeder Yes No 318 Quarantine
3/29/2021 3Y Female TX Hunt WTD Breeder Yes No 381 Quarantine
3/29/2021 4 Y Female PA Blair WTD Breeder No NA 11 Quarantine
3/19/2021 3.75 Y Male PA Bedford WTD Hobby No NA 8 Quarantine
3/3/2021 4 Y Male MI Montcalm WTD Shooter No NA 14 Quarantine
2/8/2021 3.5 Y Male PA Blair WTD Shooter No NA 19 Quarantine
12/30/2020 Ukn Y Female PA Bedford WTD Shooter No NA 51 Quarantine
12/15/2020 2.5 Y Female PA Fulton WTD Hobby No NA 19 Quarantine
11/18/2020 2.5 Y Female KS Rawlins MD Breeder Yes Yes 70 Quarantine
10/29/2020 2 Y Male PA Somerset WTD Shooter No No 0 Depopulated
10/14/2020 2 Y Male SD Custer Elk Breeder/Hobby No NA 6 Quarantine
10/14/2020 2.5 Y Female MN Houston WTD Breeder Yes yes 49 Quarantine
10/1/2020 MT WTD Breeder No NA 17 Depopulated
10/1/2020 4 Y Male WI Washburn WTD Breeder Yes No 21 Quarantine
9/23/2020 6 Y Female UT Duchesne Elk Breeder No NA 55 Partial Depopulation/ Quarantine
7/2/2020 3 Y Female KS Osage Elk Breeder Yes Yes 20+ Depopulated
Updated February 2022
snip...see full list ;
www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_diseases/cwd/downloads/status-of-captive-herds.pdf
www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-disease-information/cervid/cervids-cwd/cervids-voluntary-hcp
chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2022/05/pennsylvania-joint-public-hearing.html
kind regards, terry
