Mississippi Detects First Case of CWD, did it come from Texas?

Chronic Wasting Disease confirmed in a Mississippi White-tailed Deer

2/9/2018 2:41:26 PM MDWFP

JACKSON – A white-tailed deer collected on January 25, 2018, in Issaquena County has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The deer was a 4.5-year-old male that died of natural causes and was reported to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks.

This is the first time an animal in Mississippi has tested positive for the disease, which is fatal to white-tailed deer. MDWFP will immediately implement the CWD Response Plan under the auspices of the Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks.

Pursuant to the Order of the Executive Director on behalf of the Commission, effectively immediately, supplemental feeding is banned in the following counties: Claiborne, Hinds, Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, and Yazoo.

CWD was first documented among captive mule deer in Colorado in 1967, and has been confirmed in 24 states, three Canadian provinces, and two foreign countries. It has been found in the free-ranging herds in 22 states and among captive cervids in 16 states.

According to the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance, CWD affects only cervids (hoofed animals in the cervidae family such as deer, elk, and moose). CWD affects the body’s nervous system. Once in the host’s body, prions transform normal cellular protein into an abnormal shape that accumulates until the cell ceases to function. Infected animals begin to lose weight, lose their appetite, and develop an insatiable thirst. They tend to stay away from herds, walk in patterns, carry their head low, salivate, and grind their teeth.

For more information regarding CWD in Mississippi, visit our website at www.mdwfp.com or call us at (601) 432-2199. Follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mdwfp or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/MDWFPonline

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http://www.mdwfp.com/media/news/wildlife...te-tailed-deer/

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2018

Mississippi Chronic Wasting Disease confirmed in a White-tailed Deer

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2018/02/mississippi-chronic-wasting-disease.html

SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 2017

Mississippi Officials fear white-tailed deer in Lamar County may have chronic wasting disease

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2017/08/mississippi-officials-fear-white-tailed.html

FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2017

Chronic Wasting Disease possibly unleashed in Mississippi

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2017/06/chronic-wasting-disease-possibly.html

THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2016

*** Three charged with various violations of the federal Lacey Act for white-tailed deer importation from Texas to Mississippi

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2016/04/three-charged-with-various-violations.html

USA NATIONAL CWD MAP UPDATE




https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cwd/occurrence.html

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/

2017-2018 CWD TSE Prion UPDATE

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2018

Virginia 2017 Hunt Confirms 16 Cases CWD SEE STATE BY STATE SAMPLE POSITIVES UPDATE

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2018/02/virginia-2017-hunt-confirms-16-cases.html

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2018

TEXAS CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD TSE PRION MOUNTING, JUMPS TO 79 CASES TO DATE

snip...see more here, you will have to hit the EXPAND button and go page by page to get all CWD postives;

https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/diseases/cwd/tracking/

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2018

TEXAS CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD TSE PRION MOUNTING, JUMPS TO 79 CASES TO DATE

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2018/01/texas-chronic-wasting-disease-cwd-tse.html

SUNDAY, MAY 14, 2017

85th Legislative Session 2017 AND THE TEXAS TWO STEP Chronic Wasting Disease CWD TSE Prion, and paying to play, a lesson on how political and corporate science helps spread a deadly disease

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2017/05/85th-legislative-session-2017-and-texas.html

TEXAS HISTORY OF CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY TSE PRION AKA MAD COW TYPE DISEASE

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2017/08/texas-chronic-wasting-disease-cwd-tse.html

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 07, 2018

New Mexico Bans All Live Cervid Importation Due To CWD TSE Prion still NO Final 2017 Positives Update for N.M.

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2018/02/new-mexico-bans-all-live-cervid.html

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2018

Virginia 2017 Hunt Confirms 16 Cases Chronic Wasting Disease CWD TSE Prion

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2018/02/virginia-2017-hunt-confirms-16-cases.html


kind regards, terry

I wonder if the ban on supplemental feeding in the impacted counties includes food plots?

It died of natural causes. What’s the concern here?

No flounder it did not come from Texas. It's been confirmed it was born and raised in Misssippi.

I love loaded questions. "Did it come from Texas???"

"When did you quit beating your wife"?

"How were the Russians involved?"

"Is flounder a Russian spy?"

Give it up flounder, GD it's gettin out of hand.

interstate movement of animals and TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES IN AND OUT OF CWD ZONES...

Transportation vehicles like black helicopters?

A white-tailed deer as in 1 (one) - a 4.5-year-old male that died of natural causes, again 1 (one), that died of natural causes.

Your spin, misinformation & sensationalist fake news approach discredits every aspect of the very thing you hope to accomplish.

Decontaminating Equipment Personal protective equipment (PPE), such as boots, gloves, clothing, etc., supplies, facilities, and vehicles exposed to potentially CWD infected tissues and environments should be properly cleaned and disinfected after each use.

http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/wildlifehabitat/documents/transmission.pdf

***Recently, we have been using PMCA to study the role of environmental prion contamination on the horizontal spreading of TSEs. These experiments have focused on the study of the interaction of prions with plants and environmentally relevant surfaces. Our results show that plants (both leaves and roots) bind tightly to prions present in brain extracts and excreta (urine and feces) and retain even small quantities of PrPSc for long periods of time. Strikingly, ingestion of prioncontaminated leaves and roots produced disease with a 100% attack rate and an incubation period not substantially longer than feeding animals directly with scrapie brain homogenate. Furthermore, plants can uptake prions from contaminated soil and transport them to different parts of the plant tissue (stem and leaves). Similarly, prions bind tightly to a variety of environmentally relevant surfaces, including stones, wood, metals, plastic, glass, cement, etc. Prion contaminated surfaces efficiently transmit prion disease when these materials were directly injected into the brain of animals and strikingly when the contaminated surfaces were just placed in the animal cage. These findings demonstrate that environmental materials can efficiently bind infectious prions and act as carriers of infectivity, suggesting that they may play an important role in the horizontal transmission of the disease.

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Since its invention 13 years ago, PMCA has helped to answer fundamental questions of prion propagation and has broad applications in research areas including the food industry, blood bank safety and human and veterinary disease diagnosis.

https://prion2015.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/programguide1.pdf

In conclusion, the results in the current study indicate that removal of furniture that had been in contact with scrapie-infected animals should be recommended, particularly since cleaning and decontamination may not effectively remove scrapie infectivity (31), even though infectivity declines considerably if the pasture and the field furniture have not been in contact with scrapie-infected sheep for several months. As sPMCA failed to detect PrPSc in furniture that was subjected to weathering, even though exposure led to infection in sheep, this method may not always be reliable in predicting the risk of scrapie infection through environmental contamination. These results suggest that the VRQ/VRQ sheep model may be more sensitive than sPMCA for the detection of environmentally associated scrapie, and suggest that extremely low levels of scrapie contamination are able to cause infection in susceptible sheep genotypes.

Keywords: classical scrapie, prion, transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, sheep, field furniture, reservoir, serial protein misfolding cyclic amplification

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fvets.2015.00032/full

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

*** Objects in contact with classical scrapie sheep act as a reservoir for scrapie transmission ***

http://scrapie-usa.blogspot.com/2015/12/objects-in-contact-with-classical.html

TITLE: PATHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE IN REINDEER AND DEMONSTRATION OF HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION

https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication/?seqNo115=328261


*** DECEMBER 2016 CDC EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL CWD HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/12/16-0635_article


*** Infectious agent of sheep scrapie may persist in the environment for at least 16 years ***
Gudmundur Georgsson1, Sigurdur Sigurdarson2 and Paul Brown3

http://jgv.sgmjournals.org/content/87/12/3737.full

Back around 2000, 2001, or so, I was corresponding with officials abroad during the bse inquiry, passing info back and forth, and some officials from here inside USDA aphis FSIS et al. In fact helped me get into the USA 50 state emergency BSE conference call way back. That one was a doozy. But I always remember what “deep throat” I never knew who they were, but I never forgot;

Some unofficial information from a source on the inside looking out -

Confidential!!!!

As early as 1992-3 there had been long studies conducted on small pastures containing scrapie infected sheep at the sheep research station associated with the Neuropathogenesis Unit in Edinburgh, Scotland. Whether these are documented...I don't know. But personal recounts both heard and recorded in a daily journal indicate that leaving the pastures free and replacing the topsoil completely at least 2 feet of thickness each year for SEVEN years....and then when very clean (proven scrapie free) sheep were placed on these small pastures.... the new sheep also broke out with scrapie and passed it to offspring. I am not sure that TSE contaminated ground could ever be free of the agent!! A very frightening revelation!!!

---end personal email---end...tss

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/

In summary, given the volume of tourists, hunters and servicemen moving between GB and North America, the probability of at least one person travelling to/from a CWD affected area and, in doing so, contaminating their clothing, footwear and/or equipment prior to arriving in GB is greater than negligible. For deer hunters, specifically, the risk is likely to be greater given the increased contact with deer and their environment. However, there is significant uncertainty associated with these estimates.

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Therefore, it is considered that farmed and park deer may have a higher probability of exposure to CWD transferred to the environment than wild deer given the restricted habitat range and higher frequency of contact with tourists and returning GB residents.

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DEFRA CWD

kind regards, terry

Dacus found the suspected importation of deer into Mississippi particularly troubling because they came from Texas — a state with confirmed cases of CWD in several locations.

"Any time you have deer coming from a state that is CWD-positive, it's a scary situation," Dacus said.

importation of deer into Mississippi from Texas particulary troubling

flounder, have YOU been tested for CWD?

He might be a British Spy working for the Democratic party and trying to draw the attention away from hillary clinton.

Can't this guy just go away??

So now CWD is natural causes?

So now we have to get rid of furniture? Did I read that right? Furniture.

copy & pasting a buncha crap doesn't make it real.

Scam, just another hunter hater. They, being fake profiles hack into dating websites too. Then they contact the chick your chatting with and try to ruine it with made up lies. It actually works on weak minded women. People these days are all around durranged by hype.

Lots of Alabama hunters hunt in Mississippi. They are freaking out because Alabama will probably add Mississippi to the list of states you can't bring back unprocessed deer.

So, flounder & his associates plan is working.

Spreading fear & misinformation by using fake news media tactics is working...

Founder

Seeing how the article you cite says the Texas deer came from Lamar county which is a couple hundred miles from anywhere cwd disease has been found in Texas I would say it's unlikely.

i hope you are correct kk66, but again, i am, and have been, very concerned with the cwd tse prion being spread via vehicle transportation from environmental contamination, not only animal transportation. i see New Mexico just banned all live imports of cervid, but i don't think that is enough with the cwd tse prion agent, if you look at soil as a vehicle for transportation, via vehicles and transportation there from. Lamar County might be a few hundred miles from where cwd has been _detected_, but detected is key word, plus then, where had those vehicles been that had transported those cervid? from all the shooting pen folks screaming to blame it on the crows, besides themselves, (although, as the crow flies, is not out of the question), why would vehicle transportation of soil particles not be so out of the question? it was not meant to be a catch bait question, but a valid one. ...kind regards, terry

Oral Transmissibility of Prion Disease Is Enhanced by Binding to Soil Particles

Author Summary

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of incurable neurological diseases likely caused by a misfolded form of the prion protein. TSEs include scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (‘‘mad cow’’ disease) in cattle, chronic wasting disease in deer and elk, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Scrapie and chronic wasting disease are unique among TSEs because they can be transmitted between animals, and the disease agents appear to persist in environments previously inhabited by infected animals. Soil has been hypothesized to act as a reservoir of infectivity and to bind the infectious agent. In the current study, we orally dosed experimental animals with a common clay mineral, montmorillonite, or whole soils laden with infectious prions, and compared the transmissibility to unbound agent. We found that prions bound to montmorillonite and whole soils remained orally infectious, and, in most cases, increased the oral transmission of disease compared to the unbound agent. The results presented in this study suggest that soil may contribute to environmental spread of TSEs by increasing the transmissibility of small amounts of infectious agent in the environment.

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/emergency_response/downloads/tools/johnson et al prions in soil.pdf

tse prion soil

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0058630

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3567181/pdf/ppat.1003113.pdf

http://www.nature.com/srep/2015/150210/srep08358/full/srep08358.html?WT.ec_id=SREP-639-20150217

http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/pdfExtended/S2211-1247(15)00437-4

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Objects in contact with classical scrapie sheep act as a reservoir for scrapie transmission

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fvets.2015.00032/full

cwd tse prion and soil, see more ;

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2017/01/chronic-wasting-disease-cwd-tse-prion.html


kind regards, terry

I think everyone is missing the one question that should be asked here...... how did a buck in Mississippi make to 4.5 years of age?????

Yes. Diseases are in fact, natural causes. CWD hasn't killed any significant numbers of deer. But, it is natural.

And since it kills a miniscule # of deer in comparison to other natural causes like EHD and anthrax, it should be given a miniscule amount of attention.

Dang . I come to the Texas hunting forum and learn Mississippi info.. I'm sure it will wind up being a huge deal back here that leads to all kinds of unnecessary rules and regulations.

It takes up to 2yrs to kill a deer. They aren’t born with it. Plenty of deer with it have been older than 4.5yrs old.

I kinda think that diet coming in on a truck, while it might be technically possible is probably a low enough risk that worrying about it unreasonable. You wouldn’t be talking about a ton of material, the material would be very spread out. Just wash the truck and ATV. If it’s that easy to spread then it really is unstoppable. You wouldn’t even have to be a hunter to transmit it.

We should keep everyone out of the state of Texas, mainly the liberals, so they don't accidentally take any of our contamination back to where they came from. Can we build walls all around our state?