Apr 10, 2022 · Was There Ever a Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)? Horace Gore, Wildlife Biologist Was there ever a chronic wasting disease (CWD)? Science says “N0.” If not, then what is CWD? Researchers at USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Ames, Iowa using the Western Blot test say that CWD is “indistinguishable” from scrapie, a sheep disease that was ...

Jun 5, 2018 · By Horace Gore, Wildlife Biologist. 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 human prion protein that confers resistance to chronic wasting disease.

Apr 25, 2024 · Does PrPSc (CWD and scrapie) have the properties to harm deer herds? ... The author, shown above, is Horace Gore. He is a prominent biologist from Texas. This brings up the old idiom, “If you look for something long enough and hard enough you will find it, if it is there.” Scrapie has been here since Columbus brought Spanish sheep to the ...

CWD: OR FOLLY? By Horace Gore, wildlife biologist and Editor, community knows about thismalady: ; The wholesale annihilation of over 70 whitetails in an East Texas breeder pen occurred in the fall of 2010. The deer owners could not prove that the deer herd was CWD-free because at least one of the deer had been brought in illegally from Arkansas.

Scrapie could be in the soils of almost any place in Texas and the U.S. At one time, there were 55 million sheep in the U.S., and between 1850 and 1950, Texas was a heavily stocked sheep state. This explains why CWD/scrapie has appeared, without rhyme or reason, in Texas and many central states where sheep once roamed.

Jul 10, 2023 · Very interesting read: Was There Ever a Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)? Horace Gore, Wildlife Biologist...

Jun 10, 2024 · Transmission of cervid prions to humanized mice demonstrates the zoonotic potential of CWD. Acta Neuropathologica . Vol. 144, October 2022, p. 767. doi: 10.1007/s00401-022-02482-9.

Chronic wasting disease (CWD), sometimes called zombie deer disease, is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) affecting deer.TSEs are a family of diseases thought to be caused by misfolded proteins called prions and include similar diseases such as BSE (mad cow disease) in cattle, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and scrapie in sheep. [2]

Apr 25, 2024 · Author: Horace Gore. Articles / News. What They’re Not Telling You About CWD - Thursday April 25, 2024 - Horace Gore. Scientists found through their research that CWD is no different than a well-known disease that affects sheep that was passed to cervids. Continue Reading .. Search. Search. Latest Articles.

Feb 12, 2010 · Was There Ever a Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)? Horace Gore, Wildlife Biologist Was there ever a chronic wasting disease (CWD)? Science says “N0.” If not, then what is CWD? Researchers at USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Ames, Iowa using the Western Blot test say that CWD is “indistinguishable” from scrapie, a sheep disease that was ...