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TSEs are believed to be caused by a "protein acetous infection particle," or prion. Some scientists consider prions viruses, but others say they are abnormal non-living particles. Unlike a virus, a prion contains no nucleic acid, does not trigger an immune response, and is highly resistant to extreme heat or cold.
So, we've seen the link between mad cow disease and Creutzfeld-Jacob disease in humans, and people are starting to worry that this new mad deer disease will also find its way to the human brain.
Congress is holding emergency meetings on this right now, and the National Park Service is preparing to spend millions on CWD control. This is just the beginning of the potential economic impact of CWD. Hunters spend $20 billion a year on equipment and trips, and deer hunting is more popular now than ever before. Wisconsin is considered by many to be the deer-hunting capital of North America. If CWD continues to spread, it could effect all deer and elk and related economies in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and devastate many rural communities.
In 1981 CWD made the jump to a herd of about 62,000 wild deer and elk that live between southeastern Wyoming, northeastern Colorado, and southwestern Nebraska. Between 4 percent and 8 percent of that herd are known to have it, but some biologists believe that 15 percent may in fact be infected. CWD has also been found in wild deer in Saskatchewan and the western slope of Colorado. The discovery of CWD in Wisconsin, over 900 miles east of known cases in Nebraska, raises the question of just how widespread the disease may be in the wild. Frankly, no one knows. Until recently, few were even looking for it.
A significant amount of the money being requested for Wisconsin is to set up a program to test deer killed by hunters, who annually harvest 300,000 whitetails in that state. At present, the only conclusive test for CWD is an autopsy of the animal's brain. Blood and urine tests are expected to be available soon. They will enable live testing and offer quicker and cheaper ways to detect CWD in deer killed by hunters.
CWD is thought to be spread through contact with bodily fluids and tissues, but according to Dr. Dave Samuel, former chair of wildlife biology at the University of West Virginia, "the method of transmission is unknown." The disease lies dormant for a long time, and may be persistent for two years or more. Prions concentrate in the bones, spinal chord, brain, and spleen. (Deer and elk typically feed on shed antlers and bones to get minerals.) Dr. Valerius Geist of the University of Calgary has suggested organizing teams with specially trained dogs to find dead animals in the woods and/or recover shed antlers as a way to stop or slow the spread of CWD.
As for Wisconsin, any hunter knows you cannot eradicate a herd of wild, unfenced deer unless you set off a nuclear bomb.
Shooting in one area will drive some out into another area.
Many hunters say they won't shoot deer they can't eat. If the state has to hire sharpshooters and hunt from helicopters the price tag will go up astronomically. And, to make matters worse, Wisconsin has at least two million wild whitetails, which multiply like rabbits.Even if all the deer around Mt. Horeb are shot, the method for safe disposal of the carcasses is not clear. Landfills have been proposed, but residents worry about contamination of groundwater. Incineration is possible: Prions can be destroyed at1000-degrees Fahrenheit, and 600 degrees probably works if the prion is contained at that temperature until all organic material is burned.
Some are calling for a ban on bird feeders, as deer congregate around the seed that drops to the ground.
Emerging from the fog surrounding CWD is Nebraska elk researcher Dr. Michael McDonnell. McDonnell became aware of CWD two decades ago when it broke out in game farms. He has been pouring over research from around the world ever since. He believes that it is possible that the rogue prions causing CWD or BSE are mutations of healthy prions initially caused by exposure to an organophosphate pesticide, such as Phosmet. Phosmet was used in England and Europe.
If mutated prions are the cause, couldn't they occur naturally? They could, but McDonnell believes there is a second factor involved in the spread of CWD, whatever its cause: low levels of copper in animal diets.
McDonnell says that there are low copper levels in the soils in northeastern Colorado, where CWD got started, and low copper levels in every place where an outbreak has occurred. But regardless of the copper levels in the soil, where the herds are too large, they overbrowse certain species of plants that normally are rich in copper, such as buck bush. This results in a copper-deficient diet, regardless of copper levels in soil.
That dietary deficiency makes the deer and elk more susceptible to CWD. Here's how McDonnell describes the lethal cycle:
Imagine a prion as a screen-door spring: a long length with a curling structure like DNA. At each end of the prion are hooks that carry copper to various body tissues. The prion then goes to the liver to pick up more copper. When copper is low or manganese is high, manganese gets stuck on these hooks. Manganese has a different shape than copper, causing the screen-door spring to bend with both ends coming together. These "fish-hook-shaped" prions stick to normal prions and knock off copper ions. Manganese replaces the copper and the cycle starts all over. The fish hooks latch onto each other and form chains. These chains with the fish hooks sticking out tear holes in the brain that are the trademark of TSEs.
McDonnell cites studies that show that when 300 mg of supplemental copper were fed to farmed-elk herds, which were subsequently slaughtered as part of the USDA control program, CWD was stopped almost completely. When 300 mg were fed from copper sulfate, 5-7 percent of the herd still tested positive for CWD. When no copper was fed, 33-55 percent of the elk tested positive for CWD.
What about air-dropping salt blocks laced with copper into areas like southwestern Wisconsin?
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