Deer with CWD was not an immigrant, tests show
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Department of Natural Resources says tests show a deer that tested positive for chronic wasting disease in northwestern Wisconsin did not come from an area where the disease is currently found.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the DNR says a lymph node from the 3-year-old doe came from the same genetic stock tissue taken from other northern Wisconsin deer.
The DNR says the findings mean the deer did not somehow find its way to the north and that it likely did not come from a game farm.
The agency announced last month that the deer, shot last fall, tested positive for chronic wasting. The disease has been known to persist in southern Wisconsin since 2002.
May 8, 2012 at 8 p.m.
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Maybe the deer was a plant in the Shell Lake area by an insurance company to drive eradication to reduce the number of accidents and claims on the Hwy 53 corridor. Wolves have left a few too many. How is that for a conspiracy theory? In all reality, can someone answer this question? If this deer showed up with the disease without contact with CWD deer from southern Wisconsin, HOW is trying to kill off all the deer in the CWD zones in southern Wisconsin going to eradicate CWD?????? This enquiring mind would like to know
May 8, 2012 at 2:08 p.m.
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I'm not sure about the rest of you but I don't believe immigrant deer should get CWD benefits until they can prove Wisconsin citizenship.
May 8, 2012 at 9:23 a.m.
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"An animal or plant living or growing in a region to which it has migrated."
May 8, 2012 at 9:06 a.m.
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I fail to see a problem with using that word.
May 8, 2012 at 6:10 a.m.
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shopierrehuh
No issue with article, just wondering why anyone would use "immigrant" to describe a deer.
May 7, 2012 at 10:42 p.m.
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wislady, the use of the word "immigrant" when referring to a deer would most likely pose a challenge only to those persons clinging to an anthropocentric view of the world.
May 7, 2012 at 10:16 p.m.
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It is likely that they will institute more extensive testing in the area to determine the extent of the disease. Hopefully they will immediatly stop the baiting of deer in the area. The other draconian 'kill the patients' rules like we have in this area will likely not be applied in the near future.
I fail to see what the issue is with the article or the way it was written.
May 7, 2012 at 9:48 p.m.
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The point is that they've ruled out it being a deer with CWD that somehow got to a non-CWD area, which underlines concerns that CWD is now present in the population where it was found. If you understand the context of what the DNR is working toward here, it makes perfect sense. If CWD is in a new area, then the CWD rules will have to be extended there, and extensive testing will need to be done to determine the extent of CWD among the population.
May 7, 2012 at 9:43 p.m.
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AP headline from the CT:
DNR: Infected Wis. deer came from north
Associated Press | Posted: Monday, May 7, 2012 7:41 pm
http://host.madison.com/news/state_and_r...
Headline from MJS
Deer with chronic wasting disease came from north, DNR says
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/d...
Headline from Gazette
Deer with CWD was not an immigrant, tests show
By ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday, May 7, 2012 - 8:31 p.m.
I find this wording in the headline extremely odd. I used to hunt and NEVER knew there was the possibility of shooting an "immigrant" deer.
May 7, 2012 at 9:24 p.m.
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CWD is a joke made even worse by our wonderful DNR. And yes, This article was written like a first grader wrote it. Oh well.
May 7, 2012 at 8:43 p.m.
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I am not a literary wiz by all means ,that said,does this story make any sense at all ? Or am I not getting it ?
May 7, 2012 at 8:42 p.m.
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What is with the ridiculous headline from AP? This is the only place I see it like this.
Wisconsin DNR says genetic tests show deer with chronic wasting disease came from the north
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/f4...
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