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Chronic wasting disease in free-ranging Wisconsin White-tailed Deer
Damien O Joly1, Christine A Ribic, Julie A Langenberg
1Department of Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 218 Russell Labs, Madison, WI 53706, USA. dojoly@wisc.edu
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|May 10, 2003
Abstract:
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.