Chronic Wasting Disease

Welcome to the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance's web site.

This site is a joint project of the Boone and Crockett Club, Mule Deer Foundation, and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. These non-profit wildlife conservation organizations formed the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance in January 2002 to address CWD. Other organizations have since joined the Alliance.

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The mission of the CWD Alliance is to promote responsible and accurate communications regarding CWD, and to support strategies that effectively control CWD to minimize its impact on wild, free-ranging cervids including deer, elk, and moose.

The CWD Alliance and its partner organizations are committed to providing timely, scientifically accurate information regarding chronic wasting disease, its impacts on wildlife and humans, and recommendations for its control.

What's New:

Arizona : Ariz. Agency: No Sign of Brain Malady in Deer, Elk
The Arizona Game and Fish Department announced Monday that tests conducted on thousands of elk and deer either killed in the state by hunters or by automobiles have found no indication of CWD. Read more...

National News : USDA Proposes to Amend Final Rule on Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program for Captive Deer, Elk and Moose
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing changes to a final rule that establishes a herd certification program to eliminate chronic wasting disease (CWD) from farmed or captive cervids in the United States. In the final rule, participating deer, elk and moose herds would have to follow CWD herd certification program requirements for animal identification, testing, herd management and movement of animals into and from herds. Read more...

Kansas : Ten Chronic Wasting Disease-Afflicted Deer Reported for 2008
The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) has reported 10 chronic wasting disease (CWD) cases from among almost 2,700 deer tissue samples collected and submitted for lab analysis by KDWP in recent months. Read more...

Wisconsin : Northern Deer Herd Healthy Following Intensive Testing Project
Northern Wisconsin’s deer herd has been given a clean bill of health. After testing more than 8,700 tissue samples from deer in 18 northern Wisconsin counties, biologists found no signs of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) or Tuberculosis (TB).
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