Re: OT: Chronic Wasting Disease in WI deer

In a message dated 7/31/02 11:30:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
corgilover@wi.rr.com writes:

<< This article was in our local paper last weekend.  Over 100
 people over a period of about 10 years were invited to wild
 game feasts put on by the same few men.  Two died of
 Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseas >>

That is incredible news, incredible in that we do not know this in the
Eastern states.  There is a decrease in hunting in our area while the deer
continue to increase but it is believed to be for social reasons.

Believe me, Claire, it caught officials here in Wisconsin quite by surprise. They think the disease might have been brought in by elk that were imported from the west to be raised on some of the local "game farms".

The deer herd here in WI is quite large and really dependent upon hunting to be thinned. If hunting is significantly decreased because of CWD, the herd may have to be thinned by other means. As it is, nearly 100,000 are killed each year by motor vehicles alone!

Why we needed to import elk when we already have too many deer is a bit beyond me, but I freely admit, I lack the hunting gene (unless applied to plants).

--
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@wi.rr.com

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