Caribou Gear Tarp

New CWD Test

Neumie

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This should be implemented immediately and follow up tests done when a positive occurs and on every 100th random sample. Let’s get more data to validate this test.
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That is a very interesting article, will be interesting to follow the approval pathway for that test.
 
Miranda Huang of the Mississippi State University Deer Lab reported on her efforts to detect CWD prions in whitetail scrapes. She sampled 99 scrapes in a CWD zone in southwest Tennessee, and 54 of them (55%) tested positive for CWD prions using RT-QuIC.

Miranda collected soil from the scrapes and clipped the tips of the licking branches above the scrapes for testing, since prions are shed by infected deer in both urine and saliva. Of all 99 scrapes tested, 35% of them contained CWD prions on the licking branch only, 14% in the soil only, and 6% in both soil and on the licking branch.

 
Miranda Huang of the Mississippi State University Deer Lab reported on her efforts to detect CWD prions in whitetail scrapes. She sampled 99 scrapes in a CWD zone in southwest Tennessee, and 54 of them (55%) tested positive for CWD prions using RT-QuIC.

Miranda collected soil from the scrapes and clipped the tips of the licking branches above the scrapes for testing, since prions are shed by infected deer in both urine and saliva. Of all 99 scrapes tested, 35% of them contained CWD prions on the licking branch only, 14% in the soil only, and 6% in both soil and on the licking branch.

Interesting and scary at the same time
 
Miranda Huang of the Mississippi State University Deer Lab reported on her efforts to detect CWD prions in whitetail scrapes. She sampled 99 scrapes in a CWD zone in southwest Tennessee, and 54 of them (55%) tested positive for CWD prions using RT-QuIC.

Miranda collected soil from the scrapes and clipped the tips of the licking branches above the scrapes for testing, since prions are shed by infected deer in both urine and saliva. Of all 99 scrapes tested, 35% of them contained CWD prions on the licking branch only, 14% in the soil only, and 6% in both soil and on the licking branch.

Yikes
 
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