Chronic Wasting Disease is seldom a conversation in deer camps, yet the spread of this whitetail disease could be devastating to the animals we love, along with the heritage of deer hunting. Fortunately, it’s not sweeping the nation like some deer flu, yet every hunter should be aware of the danger CWD presents and make informed decision to control it. This QDMA post tells it like it is.
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a serious threat to the future of deer hunting. Yet, there are many hunters who don’t understand or appreciate the threat, who feel it is not something they have to worry about because it is far away from their woods, or who confuse it with other diseases. That’s why it’s important for all deer hunters — especially those who have not yet felt the impact of CWD or who live far from any outbreak areas — to learn what is really happening right now to those who have the misfortune of being affected.
There is much confusion between CWD and hemorrhagic disease (EHD and bluetongue virus). EHD and bluetongue are serious matters in their own right, and their impact is more rapid, more visible and more dramatic. Deer carcasses pile up quickly in outbreak areas. By contrast, CWD is a slow poison, building over time, taking months or years to kill individual deer that are spreading the infection as they slowly die… [continued]
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