While Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) officials continue to do all they can to keep chronic wasting disease (CWD) out of Alabama, unfortunately the latest news from our neighbors in Mississippi is not good. Another deer in the lower Mississippi Delta in Issaquena County, a 2½-year-old doe, tested positive Read more…
A recent study by a research team at UC San Diego has shown that a small loop in the human prion protein prevents corruption of human proteins when exposed to elk prions. This study, published Feb. 23, 2017 in the Journal of Clinical Investigations identified the small loop in the Read more…
The hunting industry is under attack by the Conservation Department and land owner rights will be infringed upon by a governmental department that was originally formed to safeguard the wildlife resources for the future. They have lost sight of that and stepped outside their bounds of authority and if we Read more…
Take a look at this deep dive into the Current Scientific Knowledge About CWD. Get the details on this controversial subject. CURRENT-SCIENTIFIC-KNOWLEDGE-ABOUT-CWD
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) catapulted into the world of deer hunters all over the South when an afflicted white-tailed deer was discovered in the Mississippi Delta this past January. It was the first case so close to Alabama, and the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ Wildlife and Freshwater Read more…
CWD is transmitted directly through animal-to-animal contact, and indirectly through contact with objects or environment contaminated with infectious material (including saliva, urine, feces, and carcasses of CWD-infected animals). It may take over a year before an infected animal develops symptoms, which can include drastic weight loss (wasting), stumbling, listlessness and Read more…
