Low Pathogenic Avian influenza in VA

Live Bird Market Closure in the Northeast

Infectious Salmon Anemia

CWD in MN and WI

VS Consolidates Offices

Pseudorabies in IA, PA, and MN

The Greater Yellowstone Area: Brucellosis in Bison and Elk

Homeland Security Grants to States and Tribal Lands

Assessing Brucellosis in the Tristate Area: Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho

Tuberculosis in Michigan

Chronic Wasting Disease in Minnesota and Wisconsin

In FY 2002, cases of CWD were confirmed in both wild and captive white-tailed deer in Wisconsin and in a captive elk herd in Minnesota. Both the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Minnesota DNR have been working closely with VS to test wild deer in the areas where positive cervids were found to determine the extent of CWD in the surrounding free-ranging population.

VS has provided personnel to assist with surveillance sampling efforts as well as to help find additional laboratory capacity sufficient to meet the needs of all hunters who want their deer tested.

In FY 2002, 31 positive free ranging white-tailed deer and two captive white-tailed deer herds were identified as positive. The Wisconsin DNR has developed an extensive management plan for CWD in wildlife in cooperation with several other State agencies. One goal of this plan is to eradicate the disease in wildlife in the affected area of the State. Significant surveillance goals have also been established Statewide, with a total of up to 50,000 surveillance samples anticipated.

In Minnesota, a positive 5-year-old male elk in a captive herd was identified. It had been purchased from a captive facility in an adjacent county in August 2000. The herd where the elk was found has been placed under quarantine. This was the first case of CWD in Minnesota.