{"id":709,"date":"2017-10-09T01:39:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T01:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/?p=709"},"modified":"2020-04-22T23:54:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T23:54:38","slug":"the-challenge-of-cwd-insidious-dire-and-urgent-late-breaking-research-reinforces-the-need-for-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwf.mb.ca\/archives\/709","title":{"rendered":"The Challenge of CWD: Insidious, Dire and URGENT, Late-Breaking Research Reinforces the Need For Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since Valeries Geist (Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary), David Clausen, (Former Chair, Wisconsin Natural Resources Board), Vince Crichton, (Former Co-Chair, Canada\u2019s National Wildlife Disease Strategy) and Darrel Rowledge, (Director, Alliance for Public Wildlife) authored a comprehensive analysis on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) which brought to light the dire situation Manitoba and other Provinces are faced with, there has been an update:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShortly after the release of The Challenge of CWD: Insidious and Dire, key findings in several areas of CWD research alerted prion scientists and authorities around the world to the urgency of the current situation. Careful scrutiny, repetition, and thorough interdisciplinary analyses are needed\u2014but the implications are profound.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2013 Darrel Rowledge (Director, Alliance for Public Wildlife) and Paul Sockett ((fmr) Director, Foodborne, Waterborne, and Zoonotic Infections Division, Public Health Agency of Canada)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New research points to the potential health risk to humans. Combine this with population-wide impacts on cervids, and consequences for the international trade of Canadian agriculture and agro-foods, and the consequences could be catastrophic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mwf.mb.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/CWD-Living-Legacy-White-Paper.pdf\">Living Legacy White Paper :<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mwf.mb.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/CWD-Living-Legacy-White-Paper.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mwf.mb.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/CWD-Comprehensive-Analysis-Supplement-PR.pdf\">CWD Comprehensive Analysis Supplement:<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mwf.mb.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/CWD-Comprehensive-Analysis-Supplement-PR.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Valeries Geist (Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary), David Clausen, (Former Chair, Wisconsin Natural Resources Board), Vince Crichton, (Former Co-Chair, Canada\u2019s National Wildlife Disease Strategy) and Darrel Rowledge, (Director, Alliance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_control_status":"","_tribe_events_control_status_canceled_reason":"","_tribe_events_control_status_postponed_reason":"","_tribe_events_control_online":"","_tribe_events_control_online_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[52,22,47,142],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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