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[2] USA: (Wyoming)
Date: Mon 29 Oct 2007
Source: The Courier Journal [edited]
<http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071028/SPORTS09/710280596/1002/SPORTS>
An Indiana hunter will be allowed to keep the head mount of a deer he
killed in Wyoming that tested positive for chronic wasting disease.
The unidentified hunter knew about the CWD risk and submitted a portion of
the animal to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department for testing before
having the meat deboned for transport home. After the animal tested
positive for CWD, Wyoming officials contacted the hunter and the Indiana
Department of Natural Resources.
Indiana DNR officials disposed of the meat, but the hunter was allowed to
keep the mount, according to Dr Jennifer Strasser, a veterinarian with the
Indiana Board of Animal Health and a state conservation officer. "As long
as the skull cap and cape are cleaned properly, the hunter can safely keep
the mount," she said. The Indiana DNR (Department of Natural Resources) has
tight restrictions on transporting deer, elk, and other cervids into the
state. For information go to <http://www.in.gov/dnr/deerhealth/cwd.htm>.
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communicated by:
Terry S Singeltary Sr
<flounder9@verizon.net>
[The article does not tell us if the head and cape were cleaned by the
hunter or by a professional taxidermist. Neither does the article indicate
how this was verified, or if it was verified. If it were done by a
taxidermist then one must wonder where the taxidermist is located, in
Wyoming or Indiana, or some other state. In the past Indiana had no
regulations regarding disposal of offal associated with a head mount and
Indiana DNR had no way to track such either. Unless something has changed,
the Indiana DNR did not have a complete list of taxidermists within the
state. Without such a list or regulation of how the offal for a head/cape
mount are to be disposed of it is possible that CWD could have been allowed
to enter the state. - Mod.TG
The US states of Wyoming and Indiana can be located on the
HealthMap/ProMED-mail interactive map at
<http://healthmap.org/promed?v=40,-97.6,4>. - CopyEd.MJ]
[see also:
Chronic wasting disease, cervids - Canada (04): (SK, NS) 20071027.3497
Chronic wasting disease, cervids - USA (WV) 20070513.1525
Chronic wasting disease, cervids - USA: 2006 summary 20070330.1091
Chronic wasting disease, cervids - Canada (AB, SK) 20070117.0227
Chronic wasting disease, cervids - Canada (SK) 20070112.0139
Chronic wasting disease, cervids - Canada (AB) 20070105.0051
2006
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Chronic wasting disease, cervids - USA (WY)(02) 20061230.3653
Chronic wasting disease, cervids - USA (WV, IL) 20061228.3644
Chronic wasting disease, cervids - USA (CO): moose 20061110.3229
Chronic wasting disease, cervids - USA (WY) 20061013.2935
Chronic wasting disease, cervids - USA (SD) 20060616.1669
Chronic wasting disease, cervids - USA (WV) 20060430.1248
Chronic wasting disease, cervid - USA (MN) 20060316.0825
Chronic wasting disease, cervids - Canada (AB) 20060224.0604
Chronic wasting disease, cervids - USA (KS) 20060124.0237
Chronic wasting disease Update 2006: USA (IL) 20060113.0119]
.................tg/mj/sh
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