Texas CWD per Dr. Deer

[Boll Weevil]

Texas wouldn't know how to hunt without feeders. At least 99%. There's so much money in it they won't ever touch it.

100% true.

 

[redblood]

We would just be sitting around wondering what killed so many people.

I have my doubts. I think it would have been a couple bad flu seasons until herd immunity was achieved

 

[MickThompson]

Deer have survived cwd for millennia…….we just know have named it and have to ability to detect it…..imagine id we never named or recognized covid 19- would we ever known the difference ?

If this is the case, then why haven't they developed resistance to it?

Perhaps because it's truly a domestic sheep disease and domestic sheep were a continent away until the last 500 years? And perhaps because deer and sheep naturally avoided each other until forced into the same facility?

 

[redblood]

Where do get that deer have survived it for millennia? Doesn't the evidence point to CWD showing up in penned deer exposed to other livestock in the 2nd have of the last century.....and that it first jumped from sheep to deer about 60 years ago...spreading from enclosure to enclosure as captive deer were bought and sold, before jumping the fence to the wild?

Lots of sources. Yes it was diestbidentified in whitetail
Deer in the 1960s, but there are evidence of the disease dating back much further than that, including a strain that potentially affected bison back in the 1800s- safe to say its older than we are giving it credit for

 

[ROB]

CWD management, much like the management of many diseases, is a complex issue featuring significant disagreement. I certainly don't have the answer. My guess is that there's not a single answer. I do have a couple of comments.

First, with the current state of CWD, herd immunity isn't possible. Herd immunity occurs when a significant portion of the population is immune to a disease. This depends on the development of individual immunity within members of that population. Because there is no effective vaccine for CWD & CWD is uniformly fatal, no individual immunity can occur. In my mind, doing nothing, especially when CWD is first found in an area, is a poor option. I completely agree that bringing in snipers & killing every deer possible for a big area is not the right option. My vote would be for increasing hunter opportunity, not allowing baiting & minerals, providing hunters with proper ways to dispose deer that test positive, and limiting transport of deer in & out of the affected area to meat free of lymph nodes & brain/spinal cord. This would be inconvenient for hunters but not awful.

Second, Dr. James Kroll (Dr. Deer) does not have a very good reputation among wildlife biologists & wildlife disease experts that I have asked about him. I don't know if this is because they feel his findings lack scientific validity or they think he's a shill for the captive deer industry.

 

[knightrider]

Dudes a con, all you can do is nothing and let it be. You gonna catch every deer in the wild and give it a shot or a pill